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cone-sbaped mound which the author believes must in early times have 

 been occupied by man. The exceeding rarity of Gare-fowl remains in 

 Britain gives a special interest to the record of their being found in these 

 Western Scottish isles, and as associated with animals and other material 

 giving evidence of the presence of man. 



A communication followed from Mr. P. H. Gosse, dealing with the 

 clasping organs auxiliary to the generative parts in certain groups of the 

 Lepidoptera. After preliminary remarks the author mentions his mode of 

 manipulation, and proceeds to a description of the organs in question, 

 finally dealing with the modification of the apparatus as investigated 

 in a very considerable number of species of the genera Ornithoptera and 

 Papilio. 



A paper " On the Ornithology of New Guinea," part viii., by Mr. R. 

 Bowdler Sharpe, was read. This contribution comprised the results of 

 collections made by Mr. A. Goldie in the districts at the back of the 

 Astrolabe Range in South-East N. Guinea, and by Mr. Charles Hunstein 

 on Normanby Island, on the south shore of the mainland of the China 

 Ghauts, and on the banks of a river at the end of Milne Bay. — J. Murie. 



Zoological Society of London. 



May 2, 1882.— Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



After the Secretary had read the minutes of the previous meeting, the 

 President said, — "The minutes just read recall the fact that at our last 

 meeting we were honoured by a communication from Mr. Darwin, probably 

 his last contribution to that science to which he devoted his life-long labours. 

 No one who heard that paper — showing as it did no sign of faltering from 

 that eager interest which he had always manifested in a subject which he 

 had made peculiarly his own — expected that not twenty-four hours would 

 elapse before those labours would be brought to a close. During the 

 fortnight that has passed the whole world has been moved at the loss it 

 has sustained, and his work and his character have, more than any other 

 theme, filled the minds of thinking people of all countries, classes, creeds, 

 and occupations. We who humbly follow him in cultivating the science 

 he adorned must feel elevated at the sight of the full recognition accorded 

 to his work. The general acceptance of Darwin as one who has exercised 

 a powerful influence upon the whole realm of human thought, the cordial 

 reception of his remains in our magnificent Abbey, among the illustrious 

 men of whom our country is proud, are triumphs in the history of Zoology, 

 for it was mainly zoological observation which led to those philosophical 

 speculations which have made his name famous. The nation's grief at his 



