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 SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Zoological Society of London. 



June 19, 1888.— Prof. W. H. Flower, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, 

 in the chair. 



A letter was read addressed to the President by Dr. Emin Pasha, 

 dated Tunguru Island (Lake Albert), October 31st, 1887, announcing the 

 despatch of further collections of Natural-History objects, and promising 

 for the Society some notes on European migratory birds observed in that 

 country. 



An extract was read from a letter addressed by Mr. E. L. Layard to 

 Mr. John Ponsonby, concerning the occurrence of a West-Indian Land- 

 shell, Stenogyra octona, in New Caledonia. 



Mr. Tegetmeier exhibited and made remarks on the feet of an Australian 

 Rabbit, supposed to have acquired arboreal habits. 



Prof. Bell exhibited and made remarks on a specimen of a tube-forming 

 Actinian, Cerianthus membranaceus, in its tube, obtained by Mr. John 

 Murray at a depth of seventy fathoms in Loch Etive. 



A communication was read from Prof. W. Newton Parker, on the 

 poison-glands of the fishes of the genus Trachinus. This paper showed 

 the existence of glauds in connection with the grooved dorsal and opercular 

 spines of the two British species of Weever. The glands were stated to be 

 composed of large granular nucleated cells, which are continuous with those 

 of the epidermis. An account of the observations of previous authors, both 

 as regards the structure and physiology of the poison-organs of these fishes, 

 was also given. 



A communication was read from Mr. H. W. Bates, containing the 

 description of a collection of Coleoptera made by Mr. J. H. Leech, during 

 a recent visit to the eastern side of the Corean Peninsula. A second com- 

 munication from Mr. Bates treated of some new species of Coleoptera of 

 the families Cicindelidce and Carabida, from the valley of the Yang-tsze- 

 Kiang, China. 



Mr. J. B. Sutton read a paper on some abnormalities occurring among 

 animals recently living in the Society's Gardens. 



Prof. Bell read an account of a collection of Echinoderms made at 

 Tuticorin, Madras, by Mr. Edgar Thurston, Superintendent of the Govern- 

 ment Central Museum, Madras. 



A communication was read from Mr. F. Moore, containing the second 

 portion of a list of the Lepidoptera collected by the Rev. J. H. Hocking, 

 chiefly in the Kangra District of the north-western Himalayas. The present 

 paper contained the descriptions of seven new genera and of forty-eight new 



