4848 TuE Zoo.ocist—Marcu, 1876. 
extract from a letter addressed to Dr. Burkitt by Mr. S. D. Goff, dated 
“Horetown, New Ross, April 80, 1868”:—*I perfectly recollect, many 
years since, my late father purchasing—I think from a Tramore man— 
what I until now supposed was a penguin—a large brown and white bird, 
sitting up straight on the tail, and with very small wings; but I can give 
no information as to the time, place or circumstances of the purchase. 
Before forwarding to Horetown, he had it for a short time in what was then 
called the wash-house garden, at Mary Street, but which is now absorbed 
in the brewery yard; it had then only a pan of water.” Dr. Burkitt 
retains Mr. F. Davis's letter “which accompanied the bird,” which may 
one day be thought a curiosity.—J. H. Gurney, jun. 
The King Penguin at the Zoo,—After a residence of thirteen weeks at the 
Zoological Gardens, this beautiful bird has succumbed to the fate of all such 
captives—dying of lung disease. I continually visited him, and saw from a 
peculiarity in his breathing that his end was approaching. My object, how- 
ever, is not to pen an obituary notice of my feathered friend, but to state that 
he suffered from another disease—hydrophobia, the dread of water. Nothing 
could induce him to enter the water: if compelled to take the water, he 
would struggle out of it without loss of time, and thus regain terra firma 
with the least possible delay. A smaller penguin—I believe Eudyptes 
demersus—is also dead; but this individual had no horror of water, as was 
evinced by his keen pursuit of gudgeon and dace in his stone basin.— 
Edward Newman. 
Iceland Gull at Aldeburgh.—An immature specimen of the Iceland gull 
was shot at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, on the 15th of January, 1876.—F. Kerry ; 
Harwich. 
Proceedings of Scientific Societies, 
ZooLoaicaL Society or Lonpon. 
January 18, 1876,—Rosert Hupson, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, in 
the chair. 
Prof. A. H. Garrod read a paper on a peculiarity in the carotid artery 
and on other points in the anatomy of the ground hornbill. 
Mr. E. R. Alston read a paper on the classification of the order Glires. 
Lilljeborg’s suborders Glires simplicidentati and duplicidentati were recog-- 
nised, the former being divided into sections equivalent to Brandt's sub- 
orders Sciuromorphi, Myomorphi and Hystricomorphi. A third suborder 
was proposed for the reception of the fossil form Typotherium. 
A communication was read from Mr. HK. A. Liardet, containing notes on 
the land shells of Taviuni, one of the Fiji Islands, with descriptions of 
several new species. 
