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The following gentlemen were unanimously elected into the Council :— 
Lieut.-Col. Grant, C.B., Mr. William Carruthers, Mr. Robert Hudson, 
Dr. John Millar, and Dr. R. C. A. Prior, in the room of the subjoined who 
retired-——Mr. George Bentham, General Scott, C.B., Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, 
Mr. H. T. Stainton, and Mr. Charles Stewart. No change was made in 
President and officers, all being re-elected.—J. Muniz. 
ZooLocicaL Society or Lonpon. 
June 5, 1877.—Prof. W. H. Frower, F.B.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 
A communication was read from Dr. A. B. Meyer, enclosing a paper by 
the late Dr. Bowerbank, describing five new species of sponges, discovered 
by Dr. Meyer in the Philippine Islands and New Guinea during his recent 
travels in the Eastern Archipelago. 
A communication was read from Mr. E. L. Layard, containing some 
remarks on the exact localities of certain species of birds of the Islands of 
the South Pacific. 
A second communication from Mr. Layard contained remarks on a paper 
by Mr. R. B. Sharpe on the Cuculid@ of the Ethiopian Region. 
A communication was read from Mr. Arthur G. Butler, containing an 
account of a collection of Lepidoptera, made at Cape York and on the South- 
East Coast of New Guinea, by the Rev. J. 8. MacFarlane. Of these five 
butterflies and four moths were described as new to science. 
Dr. A. Giinther read a report on a collection of fishes made during the 
late Arctic Expedition by Mr. Hart, Naturalist on board H.M.S. « Discovery.’ 
Amongst them was a new species of Charr, from a lake near the winter 
quarters of the ‘ Discovery,’ which was proposed to be called Salmo Naresi. 
A communication was read from Mr. D. G. Elliot, containing a review of 
the genera and species of Ibidinw or subfamily of Ibises. 
A communication was read from Mr. Martin Jacoby, containing the 
descriptions of some new species of Phytophagous Coleoptera from various 
parts of the world. 
Messrs. P. L. Sclater and O. Salvin read descriptions of six apparently 
new species of birds from collections lately received from Ecuador and Peru. 
Amongst these was a remarkable new duck of the genus Fuligula from the 
vicinity of Lima, Peru, proposed to be called Fuligula Nationi, after Prof. 
Nation, its discoverer. 
Mr. A. H. Garrod read the third part of his series of papers on the 
anatomy of Passerine Birds, and treated specially of some modifications of 
the tracheophonine larynx, which he had lately ascertained to occur in the 
genera Pteroptochus and Grallaria. 
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