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On the Female Generative Organs, Viscera, and Fleshy 
Parts of Hyena brunnea, Thunberg. By James Murie, 
M.D., F.L.S., F.G.S., &c., Lecturer on Comparative Ana- 
tomy, Middlesex Hospital, ate Prosector to the Zoological 
Society of London. With one plate. 
On the Dodo (Part II.).. Notes on the Articulated Ske- 
leton of the Dodo (Didus ineptus, Linn.) in the British 
Museum. By Professor Owen, F.R.S., F.Z.S., &c. With 
three plates. 
Copies of these three parts of ‘ Transactions ’ and of the 
three parts of ‘ Proceedings’ for 1871 are delivered to all 
Subscribers of £1 1s. to the publication fund for 1871. 
The eighth part of Vol. VII. of ‘Transactions’ (con- 
cluding the volume) and the first part of Vol. VIII. have 
been issued since the commencement of the year, and will 
be delivered to all Subscribers to the publications for 1872. 
A new and revised edition of the list of Vertebrate 
animals in the Society’s Gardens, by the Secretary, is in 
the press, and will be ready for issue very shortly. 
A General Index to the ten years of the Society’s ‘ Pro- 
ceedings,’ from 1861 to 1870, is also being printed. 
The first part of the ‘ Proceedings’ for the present year 
is nearly complete, and will be ready for issue very 
shortly. 
3. LiBRARY. 
Mr. R. B. Sharpe, the Society’s Librarian, having ten- 
dered his resignation, in order to be able to devote more 
time to several important works on ornithology which he 
has in progress, the Council accepted it with regret, and 
appointed in his place Mr. A. Waterhouse, recently Assis- 
tant Librarian to the Geological Society. 
Mr. Waterhouse is busily engaged in revising the proofs 
of the new Library Catalogue prepared by Mr. Sharpe, 
and hopes to be able to issue it in a complete state in a 
few weeks. 
The sum of £239 19s. 8d. has been devoted to the pur- 
chase of new zoological works for the Library during the 
past year. : 
Besides these additions, the Society’s Library has re- 
ceived, during the year 1871, Transactions and Proceedings 
from the following Institutions :— 
