240 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
A letter was read from Mr. B. Crowther, stating that he was about to 
send the Society a pair of Duckbills, Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, and 
giving some instructions as to the treatment of these animals in captivity. 
Mr. F. Day exhibited and made remarks on a curious specimen illustra- 
tive of an extensive injury to the intestines of a Trout, and its subsequent 
recovery therefrom. 
Mr. Day also exhibited a piece of the sifting-apparatus of the Basking 
Shark, together with specimens of the food upon which it lives; and an 
example of the Vendace taken in Derwentwater Lake. 
Mr. Osbert H. Howarth exhibited a specimen of coral of the genus 
Dendrophyllia attached to a brown stoneware bottle, which had been 
dredged up in the Atlantic, off Madeira, at a depth of about 15 fathoms. 
A communication was read from Prof. J. von Haast on Dinornis oweni, 
in which the author gave a detailed description of the bones of this recently 
discovered new species of the extinct wingless birds of New Zealand, which 
was remarkable for its small size. 
A communication was read from Dr. St. George Mivart, containing 
notes on the genetic affinities of the group of Pinnipeds. 
Dr. F. H. H. Guillemard read the third part of his report on the 
collection of birds formed during the voyage of the yacht ‘ Marchesa.’ The 
paper dealt with the birds obtained on the Island of Sumbawa, a locality 
hitherto almost unknown to ornithologists. During the ‘ Marchesa’s’ short 
visit examples of thirty-nine species were collected. Of these, two (Turnia 
powelli and Zosterops sumbavensis) were new to Science. The remaining 
species had been previously recorded from islands to the eastward or west- 
ward in the same group. 
A communication was read from Dr. Hubrecht, containing the descrip- 
tion of a Pennatulid obtained by Capt. St. John in the Japanese Sea at a 
depth of 71 fathoms. A careful examination of the specimen in question 
induced the author to assign it to a new genus and species, which he pro- 
posed to name Hchinoptilus mackintoshit. 
Mr. Herbert Druce read a paper on some new species of Lepidoptera- 
Heterocera, founded on specimens obtained by the late Mr. C. Buckley in 
Ecuador, to which were added descriptions of some recent acquisitions of 
the same group from various other localities. 
Mr. F. D. Godman read descriptions of the Lepidoptera collected by 
Mr. H. H. Johnstone on Kilimandjaro. The collection contained examples 
of twenty-one species of the Rhopalocera, and six of Heterocera. Of the 
Rhopalocera the author described three species as new. — P. L. ScratEr, 
Secretary. 
