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loss has already found eloquent and feeling expression in many quarters ; 

 the resources of our language seem to have been exhausted in bearing 

 testimony to his worth. No words that I could find would add anything to 

 what has been so well said by others ; and surely here, if in any place in 

 the world,— among those who are always occupied with subjects the pursuit 

 of which has been so profoundly modified by his writings, and among many 

 who loved him as a personal friend, — nothing is needed but to mention his 

 name to call forth the strongest feelings of admiration for his work and 

 reverence for his character. If it is not given to any of us to emulate him 

 in brilliaucy of scientific induction, or to light upon discoveries that will 

 change the current of human ideas, we can at least endeavour to follow the 

 example he has set us of patient perseverance in observation, scrupulous 

 accuracy of statement, deference for the opinions and feelings of others, 

 candour towards opponents, and of that invariable modesty and gentleness 

 of demeanour which shed such a charm round his public as well as his 

 private life." 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a drawing of a Tapir presented to the Society by 

 Mr. Fritz Zurcher in August last, which had been captured on the Yuruari 

 River, in Venezuela. Mr. Sclater observed that in form and colour this 

 animal seemed to agree better with Tapirus Down than with the ordinary 

 T. americanus, and suggested that it was quite likely that the former 

 species might be the Tapir of the northern coast-region of Columbia and 

 Venezuela. 



Mr. J. E. Harting made some remarks on the desirability of 

 adopting a standard of nomenclature when describing the colours of 

 natural objects. 



Dr. Hans Gadow read a paper on the structure of feathers in relation 

 to their colour, in the course of which he endeavoured to show how the 

 optical appearances of the various colours met with in the feathers of birds 

 were produced. 



Prof. Flower gave an account of the cranium of a Cetacean of the genus 

 Hyper ood on, from the Australian Seas, upon which he proposed to found 

 a new species, H. latifrons. 



A communication was read from Dr. 0. Staudinger, containing the 

 description of some new and interesting species of Rhopalocera from the 

 New World. 



A communication was read from Mr. H. J. Elwes, containing a 

 description of a collection of Butterflies made on the Tibetan side of 

 the frontier of Sikkim, amongst which were examples of several species 

 new to Science. 



A communication was read from Mr. Edgar L. Layard, describing a 

 new species of Parrot of the genus Nymphicus from Uvea, one of the 

 Loyalty group, which he proposed to call N. uvceensis. 



