26 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES.* 



Linnean Society of London. 



November 3, 1881.— Sir John Lubbock, Bart, M.P., F.R.S., President, 

 in the chair. 



In opening the session, the President regretted it to be his melancholy 

 duty officially to announce the death of the Treasurer, Mr. Frederick Currey, 

 who was held in universal esteem. Thereupon a resolution was proposed, 

 which was sympathetically spoken to by the former President, Mr. George 

 Benthara, and his former colleagues and Secretaries, Messrs. H. T. Stainton 

 and Prof. St. G. Mivart, which resolution was carried unanimously. 



The Rev. W. H. Jones and the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers were balloted 

 for and elected Fellows of the Society. 



Prof.T. Spencer Cobbold exhibited under the microscope about a hundred 

 eggs of Bilharzia hamatohia. They were taken from a gentleman who had 

 just arrived from Egypt, and who was the victim of ha?maturia, induced by 

 the parasites in questiou, and supposed to have been contracted during a 

 hunting expedition. By adding water nearly all the eggs were batched during 

 the meeting, and the rare opportunity was thus afforded of witnessing the 

 behaviour of the newly born ciliated animalcules. 



Mr. R. M'Lachlan exhibited and made remarks on a parthenogenetically 

 bred beetle [Gastrophysa raphani). The specimen bad been the second 

 reared by Dr. J. A. Osborne in Ireland. The egg which produced it was 

 one of a batch of forty-two laid by a virgin female on June 14th, and was 

 hatched on the 34th. Moults occurred on the 1st and 5th July, metamor- 

 phosis to pupa July 14th, and the imago appeared July 23rd. 



A description of some new birds from the Solomon Islands and New 

 Britain, by Mr. Edward P. Ramsay, of Sydney, was theu read by the 

 Secretary. The new species are: — Ceyx sacerdotis, Pomara iMonarcha) 

 ugiensis, Calornis feadensis, Carj>oj)haga Finschii, Baza Gurneyi, and 

 Astur jiidcheUis. 



December 1, 1881. — Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., President, 

 in the chair. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for and duly elected Fellows of 

 the Society :— Capt. P. Greene, G. S. Jenman, W. Landau, E. G. Warnford 

 Lock, Rev. J. P. A. Sturges, Lieut.-Col. C. Swinhoe, G. C. Waltou, C. S. 

 Wilkinson, G. S. V. Wills, and the Rev. George Wilson. 



