SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 185 
March 18, 1886.—Sir Joan Lussocx, Bart., F.R.S., President, in 
the chair. 
The Hon. J. T. Boscawen, Dr. P. Herbert Carpenter, and Arthur E. 
Gibbs were elected Fellows of the Society. 
The only zoological paper read was “On the Madreporaria of the 
Mergui Archipelago,” by Prof. T. Martin Duncan. The large collections 
from Mergui were obtained personally by Dr. John Anderson, F.RS., 
Curator of the Imperial Museum of India, Calcutta. The fauna consists 
of eighty-four species, of which thirteen are new to Science. The new 
species are described, and their variability commented upon. The alliances 
of the fauna as a whole are with that of the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, 
Chinese seas, and of the great islands to the east. The author makes 
frequent reference to the coral alliances with a fauna described by Verrill 
many years ago from Panama. The fauna contains so many encrusting 
"species of corals that they give it a definite facies. In conclusion the 
distinctness of the tertiary coral faunas of India from that of Mergui is 
announced.—J. Muris. 
ZoouoeicaL Society or Lonpon. 
March 2, 1886.—Dr. St. Grorcr Mivart, F.R.S., Vice-President, In 
the chair. 
The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the 
Society’s Menagerie during the month of February, and called attention to 
the receipt of five examples of a large Batrachian of the Argentine Republic, 
there called “‘ Escuerzo” (Ceratophrys ornata), presented by Dr. Frederick 
C. Strutt, and toa Mantled Buzzard (Leucopternis palliata) from Brazil, 
purchased February 15th, being the first example of this fine bird of prey 
received by the Society. 
Mr. J. G. Millais exhibited an adult specimen of the Ivory Gull, shot 
by himself near Thurso, in December, 1885; also a young example of the 
same species, obtained in Scotland in 1879. 
Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell exhibited a living Slug of the genus Parmacella, 
obtained at Tangier, and probably referable to P. valenciennest. 
A communication was read from Prof. R. Collett, containing an account 
of a new Pediculate fish from the sea off Madeira belonging to the family 
Ceratiidee, which the author proposed to call Linophryne lucifer. 
Mr. P. L. Sclater read a note on the external characters of the head of 
Fhinoceros simus as compared with those of R. bicornis. 
Mr. F. E. Beddard read a note on the air-sacs of the Cassowary. 
A second paper by Mr. Beddard treated of the syrinx and some other 
points in the anatomy of certain forms of Caprimulgide. 
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