72 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on a skin of a brown female 
Pauzis galeata, formerly living in the aviary of the late Mr. G. Dawson 
Rowley. 
Dr. A. Giinther exhibited and made remarks on a skin of a new species 
of Rhynchocyon from Eastern Africa, discovered by Dr. Kirk. 
Prof. T. H. Huxley read a paper on the application of the laws of 
evolution to the arrangement of the Vertebrata, and more particularly of the 
Mammalia. 
Lieut.-Colonel H. H. Godwin-Austen read a paper on the anatomy of 
Ferussacia gronoviana, Risso, from Mentone, pointing out its general 
relationship with Lovea tornatellina, Lowe, of Madeira, and with Ferussacia 
follicula, Gronov., from Algiers. 
Mr. Arthur G. Butler read a paper on a second collection of Lepidoptera 
made in Formosa by Mr. H. E. Hobson. Thirty-three new species were 
found in this collection. 
Mr. Oldfield Thomas read a paper containing the descriptions of a new 
species of [eithrodon obtained in Venezuela by the late Mr. D. Dyson, 
which was described as Reithrodon Alstoni. 
Dr. A. Giinther read a paper containing notes on some rare Reptiles 
and Batrachians now or lately living in the Society’s Gardens. 
: January 4, 1881.—Prof. W. H. Frower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in 
the chair. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on a skin ot the Southern 
Merganser, Mergus australis, from the Auckland Islands, belonging to the 
collection of Baron Anatole von Hiigel. 
Prof. A. Newton exhibited, on behalf of Prof. Alphonse Milne-Edwards, 
an egg of Cariama cristata, laid last summer in the Jardin des Plantes, and 
possibly the first ever seen of which the parentage was certainly known, 
though an egg, also exhibited by Prof. Newton, had been for many years in 
the collection of Mr. H. F. Walter. 
Dr. Albert Giinther read an account of the zoological collections made 
by Dr. R. W. Coppinger, R.N., during the survey of H.M.S. ‘ Alert’ in the 
Straits of Magellan, and on the coast of Patagonia, and called attention to 
the most remarkable species represented in the various groups, which had 
been worked out by himself and his assistants in the Zoological Department 
of the British Museum. Dr. Giinther also called attention to several 
interesting cases of the similarity of forms in these collections to known 
forms of the Arctic Regions and of the Australian Seas. 
A communication was read from Prof. J. O. Westwood, containing the 
descriptions of some new exotic species of moths of the genera Castnea and 
Saturnia. A second paper by Prof. Westwood contained observations ou 
two Indian butterflies, Papilio castor and P. pollua. 
