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Mr. Blanford, Prof. F. J. Bell, Mr. W. F. Kirby, Lord Walsingham, 

 Dr. Sharp, Dr. H. B. Woodward, Mr. H. T. ^Vharton, Mr. Howard 

 Saunders, Dr. Traquair, and Mr. J. E. Harting took part, and after Dr. Ooues 

 had replied, Prof. Flower summed up the discussion, and the proceedings 

 terminated with a vote of thanks to the Chairman. No formal resolution 

 was passed; the meeting having been convened merely for the purpose of 

 eliciting the opinions of specialists on the advantages and disadvantages 

 likely to attend the adoption of the system of nomenclature proposed. 

 A full report of the papers read and of the discussion which followed will 

 be found in ' Nature' for July 10th and July 17th. 



Protection of Wild Birds in India. — Under the auspices of the East 

 India Association a meeting was hold on July 11th at the Zoological 

 Society's llooms in Hanover Square, to hear a paper read by Mr. R. H. 

 Elliott "'on the need for a Wild Birds Protection Act for India." The 

 chair was occupied by Prof. Flower, F.R.S., President of the Society, and 

 the meeting was attended by a number of well-known naturalists. On the 

 conclusion of the paper it was criticised by Mr. Grote, Sir Joseph Fayrer, 

 Mr. R. B. Sharpe, Dr. Hyde Clarke, Dr. P. L. Sclater, and Mr. J. E. 

 Harting, and at the suggestion of the Chairman, Mr. Elliot moved a 

 formal resolution to the effect that, in the opinion of the meeting, it was 

 desirable that the local governments in India should take such steps to 

 frame and put in force such legislative measures as should appear best 

 calculated lo secure a close time for wild birds in India. This resolution 

 having been put to the meeting, was declared to be carried, and the 

 proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the Chairman. An 

 epitome of Mr. Elliot's paper and a report of the discussion which ensued 

 upon it will be found in 'The Field' of July 19th (p. 99). 



The Hunterian Museum. — The vacancy in the conservatorship of the 

 Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, caused by 

 the appointment of Prof. Flower to be Director of the Natural History 

 Museum, South Kensington, has only recently been filled. The new 

 Conservator is Mr. Charles Stewart, M.R.C.S.L., F.L.S., whose experience 

 as Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy and Pathology at St. Thomas's 

 Hospital and Conservator of the Museum there, well qualifies him for the 

 post, and who is moreover well known for his scientific attainments. 



MAMMALIA. 



Deer killed by Lightning. — .\ keeper of tho Duke of Portland, writing 

 to a contemporary, states that during the severe thunderstorm on the night 

 of July '.Ith, the lightning struck an oak tree in Welbeck Park, killing 

 three deer : two of them were close to the tree, but one was about ten or 

 twelve yards ofi". All the deaths seemed to be instantaneous. He adds: — 



