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II. PUBLICATIONS. 
The “ Proceedings” of the Society have been regularly 
issued in three parts, both with and without illustrations, 
since the last Anniversary, according to the new arrange- 
ments then announced to the Society. At the commence- 
ment of the present year, in accordance with recommend- 
ations made by the Committee of publication, the Council 
determined on commencing a new series of the “ Proceed- 
ings,” with the slightly altered title of “ Proceedings of the 
Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London.” 
By this means they have been enabled to effect several very 
desirable improvements in the form of printing, and in the 
numbering of the plates, and other minor particulars. No 
change is contemplated in the mode of issue, except that 
it is proposed to supply the “Proceedings” with Illustra- 
tions to Fellows of the Society, and to others having the 
privilege of purchasing the Society’s publications at a 
reduced price, at a uniform subscription-price of 10s. per 
part (of which there will be three in each year), making 
the total subscription 30s., or bound in cloth, £1 12s. for 
the whole volume. 
The volume of Illustrated Proceedings for the past 
year is now on the table, and the first part of the New 
Series, which embraces the communications made to the 
Scientific Meetings during the three first months of the 
present year will be ready in a few days. An Index 
volume to the series of Illustrated: Proceedings, from 
1848 to 1860, is likewise in preparation. 
The seventh and last part of the fourth volume of the 
Society’s Transactions is now being printed, and is ex- 
pected to be ready for delivery in the course of the summer. 
It will contain articles by Mr. W. K. Parker on the Oste- 
ology of Baleniceps rex, by Professor Owen on the Gorilla 
(being the complement of his former important papers on 
the Anthropoid Apes), and by the Secretary on the new 
Struthious Birds living in the Society’s Menagerie, the 
illustrations for which have been prepared from Mr. Wolf’s 
drawings. It will likewise contain the index and title-page 
to the fourth volume of Transactions, of which the Council 
do not contemplate the continuance in their present form. 
With regard to the increased expenditure incurred on 
the scientific publications of the Society, the Council beg 
leave to call attention to the fact that this has been more 
