4120 The Zoologist — August, 1874. 



imaginary gudgeons if there are no living ones to be swallowed. As soon as 



the exhibition is over the lethargic listless bearing and guttural grumbling 



of the birds is resumed ; it re-enters its hutch with all the sulky obedience 



of a well-disciplined child, and is forthwith conveyed to its appointed home. 



Of course, as the feet seemed almost useless in swimming, I wanted to see 



them utilized in flight in the manner described by Mr. Wallis as regards 



the puffin, but I had no such gratification. — Edward Newman.] 



' Glancoas Cull. — The Iceland gull described by Mr. Kennedy in the July 



number of the ' Zoologist' (S. S. 4078) appears to me to be in the transition 



stage between the plumages of the first and second year. I think I could 



show him a specimen shot here two winters ago by me in a very similar 



dress. I obtained three here that winter, and on one day saw upwards of 



thirty, besides glaucous gulls. They were always much more wary than 



the glaucous gulls. Papers upon the great arrival of glaucous and Iceland 



gulls in the winter of 1872-73 in the Firth of Forth and elsewhere on the 



east coast of Scotland were read at meetings of the Glasgow Natural-History 



Society by Mr. Robert Gray, late Secretary, and myself. The glaucous 



gull is a regular winter visitant to our coast, and I shall not be surprised if 



the Iceland gull be found to be so &\so.— John A. Harvie Brown; July 2, 



1874. 



DruttcMiigs of .^ticntific ^finclits. 



LiNNEAN Society of London. 



Anniversary Meeting, ^lay 25, 1874. — G. Bosk, Esq., Vice-President, in 

 the chair. 



The Secretary stated that the death of twelve Fellows of the Society 

 [i-iz. — Philip Barnes ; Frederic Bird, M.D. ; Robert Cole ; Henry Deane ; 

 J. T. Dickson, M.B. ; James Fischer; Rev. Dr. Gamier, Dean of Win- 

 chester; Albany Hancock ; T. N. R. Morson ; J. L. Stewart, M.D. ; Thomas 

 Turner; Francis C. Webb, M.D.) and of three Foreign Members {viz. — 

 Professor Louis Agassiz ; Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld ; Carl Friedrich 

 Meissner, M.D.) had been ascertained to have taken place during the year; 

 and twenty-seven had been elected during the past year. 



The Chairman announced on the report of the scrutineers appointed for 

 the purpose, that the following gentlemen were elected officers of the Society 

 for the coming year: — President, G. J. AUman, M.D. ; Treasurer, Mr. D. 

 Hanbury ; Secretaries, Messrs. Frederick Currey and St. George J. Mivart ; 

 that Robert Braithwaite, M.D., J. D. Hooker, C.B., M.D., J. G. Jeffreys, 

 LL.D., Mr. Daniel Oliver and Mr. W. W. Saunders were removed from the 

 Council, and the following five gentlemen elected in their place : — Major- 



