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SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
Royat Society. 
May 21, 1885.—Prof. Huxtey, President, in the chair. 
Prof. Boyd Dawkins, M.A., F.R.S., communicated a paper entitled 
“Contributions to the History of the Pleiocene and Pleistocene Deer. 
Part I. Cervus verticornis, Cervus savini.” The numerous cervine remains 
which occur in the various collections in Britain and on the Continent have 
been studied by the author for the last twenty-five years, and in this com- 
munication two species, the one hitherto ill-defined, and the other new to 
science, have been described. The first, or Cervus verticornis, Dawkins, 
remarkable for the singular forward and downward curvature of the first 
tine, is represented by a large series of skulls and antlers, which enable 
the author to define the changes in antler-form from youth to old age, as 
well as to relegate it to the division of deer with palmated antlers, and to 
establish its geological age to be Pleiocene and early Pleistocene in.Norfolk 
and Suffolk. The second, or Cervus savini, is represented by several skulls 
and many antlers, which present considerable modifications in form at 
varying ages. It also belongs to the section of deer with palmated antlers, 
and is probably the ancestral form of the extinct (Cervus browni, Dawkins) 
and living (C. dama) types of fallow deer. It has hitherto-only been met 
with in the early Pleistocene forest-bed series of Norfolk and Suffolk. 
ZooLocicaL Socrmty or Lonpon. 
June 2, 1885.—Prof. W. H. Frower, LI..D., V.-P.R.S., President, in 
the chair. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited drawings of, and made remarks upon, the 
specimens of various species of Coly living in the Society's Collection. 
Mr. Beddard, on behalf of himself and Mr. Treves, read a paper on 
the anatomy of the Sondaic Rhinoceros, Rhinoceros sondaicus, which had 
died in the Society's Gardens in January last. 
A communication was read from Dr. Julius yon Haast, on Megalapteryx 
hectori, an extinct gigantic representative of the Apteryx, of which the 
remains had recently been discovered in New Zealand. 
Dr. Guillemard read the fourth and fifth parts of his report on the 
collection of birds formed during the voyage of the yacht ‘ Marchesa,’ The 
present communication treated of the birds collected at Celebes and on the 
Molucca Islands. 
Mr. J. Bland Sutton read a paper on the development and morphology 
