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the genetic series, the direct product of the sexual system, is as yet wanting, 
no trace of this system having hitherto been discovered in Rhabdopleura. 
January 16, 1879.—W. Carrutuers, F'.R.S., Vice-President, in the 
chair. 
Messrs. George Brooke (Huddersfield), Arthur Pearce Luff (Maryle- 
bone), John Edward Griffiths (Bangor), Charles Sharpe (Liverpool), and 
John Woodland (Kilburn Park), were balloted for and duly elected Fellows 
of the Society. 
No zoological communications were made at this meeting, but the 
following botanical memoir was read, viz.:—‘ A Synopsis of Colchicacee 
and the aberrant Tribes of Liliacea,” by J. G. Baker.—J. Murtr. 
ZooLoGicaAL Society oF Lonpon. 
January 14, 1879.—Professor Newton, M.A., F.R.S., Vice-President, 
in the chair. 
Before proceeding to the usual business the Chairman called attention 
to the great loss which the Society and Zoological Science had sustained 
by the recent death of their late President, the Marquis of Tweeddale, 
F.R.S. 
The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the 
Society's Menagerie during the month of December, 1878, and called special 
attention to a collection of Lemurs brought to England by Mr. George A. 
Shaw from the province of Betsileo, in Central Madagascar, and acquired 
by the Society partly by purchase and partly by presentation ; and to a 
female Punjaub Wild Sheep, Ovis eycloceros, presented by Colonel W. R. 
Alexander, having been obtained in the hills between Upper Sind and 
Beloochistan. 
Dr. Traquair exhibited a specimen of the Hackled Pigeon, Alectenas 
nitidissima, recognised last September in the Museum of Science and Art 
in Edinburgh, by Professor Newton, who made some remarks on the 
species, showing that it was peculiar to Mauritius; that it is now wholly 
extinct; and that only three specimeus of it are known to have been 
preserved. 
The Secretary read an extract from a letter received from Commander 
Hoskins, R.N., of H.M.S. ‘ Wolverine,’ on the subject of the range of the 
Mooruk, stating that no traces of the existence of this bird could be found 
in New Ireland. An extract was also read from a letter, addressed to the 
Secretary by the Rev. George Brown, giving additional particulars on the 
same subject 
The Secretary read an extract from a letter addressed to him by 
Mr. R. Trimen, of Cape Town, on the subject of the true locality of the 
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