260 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
remaining in hand after payment of all current expenses, while the sum of 
£700 had been invested since the last Annual Report. 
The alterations in the Bye Laws (concerning an increase in the rate for 
Fellows compounding) proposed by the Council on the 18th of April, having 
been formally hung up in the Common Meeting Room of the Society, and 
duly read by the President and by the Vice-President in the chair at the 
last two General Meetings of the Society, were put to the ballot, and con- 
firmed by the Fellows at large in the terms of the charter. 
The senior Secretary then announced the death, during the past year, of 
fourteen Fellows, including four foreign members. Against this, thirty- 
eight new Fellows and five foreign members had been elected. Among the 
deceased were several men of repute in the scientific world. Mr. Henry 
Adams, well known as a conchologist ; Dr. Elias Fries, of Upsala, a large 
contributor to our knowledge of the Swedish Flora, especially its cryptogamic 
botany; Mr. Andrew Murray, chiefly credited as an entomologist, but 
nevertheless well versed in several kindred branches, and particularly 
known by his work, ‘On the Geographical Distribution of Mammals ;’ 
Prof. Parlatore, of Florence, an eminent Italian botanist; Mr. H. Fox 
Talbot, whose name is indelibly connected with photography; Dr. R. Visiani, 
of Padua, a distinguished botanist; Dr. H. A. Weddell, of Potiers, whose 
important contributions to the Flora of the Cordilleras and on the Cinchona 
tribe are well known; and Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston, the distinguished 
author of ‘ Insecta Maderensia” and ‘“‘ Testacea Atlantica.” 
The following gentlemen were elected into the Council :—Mr. John Ball, 
Dr Thomas Boycott, Mr. Frederick DuCane Godman, Dr. Albert Giinther, 
and the Rev. George Henslow, in the room of the subjoined, who retired 
by rotation—Mr. J. G. Baker, Dr. W. B. Carpenter, Mr. Henry Lee, 
Prof. W. K. Parker, and Mr. 8S. J. A. Salter. 
The President and officers of the Society were all re-elected. 
ZooLoGicaL Society or Lonpon. 
June 4, 1878.—Prof. Frowrr, F'.R.8., V.P., in the chair. 
The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the 
Society's Menagerie during the month of May, 1878, and called special 
attention to two male Lesser Birds of Paradise (Paradisea minor), purchased 
on the 2nd of May; a Copper-headed Snake (Cenchris centortrix), presented 
by Dr. F. Painter, F.Z.S., of South Pittsburg, Tennessee, U.S.A., and a 
Hairy or Andean Tapir (T'apirus roulini), obtained by exchange. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited a young specimen of Temminck’s Manis (Manis 
Temmincki), and read a note describing habits of this animal in captivity 
by Mr, t’, Holmwood, Assistant Political Agent at Zanzibar, 
