SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 79 
ZooLocicaL Society or Lonpon. 
December 18, 1888.—Howarp SaunveErs, F.Z.S., in the chair. 
The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the 
Society's Menagerie during the month of November, and called attention 
to a specimen of the Small-clawed Otter, Lutra leptonyx, presented by 
Mr. W. L. Sclater, Deputy Superintendent, Indian Museum, Calcutta, new 
to the Society’s Collection; and to a Monkey of the genus Cercopithecus, 
from South Africa, apparently referable to the Samango Monkey, C. samango, 
also new to the Society’s Collection. 
Mr. G. B. Sowerby read descriptions of fourteen new species of Shells 
from China, Japan, and the Andaman Islands, chiefly collected by Deputy 
Surgeon-General R. Hungerford. 
A communication was read from Mr. Herbert Druce, in which he gave 
an account of the Lepidoptera-Heterocera collected by Mr. C. M. Woodford 
in Guadalcanar Island, Solomon Islands. The collection was stated to 
contain exatples of fifty-three species, eighteen of which were described 
as new to science. 
Mr. J. H. Leech read the second portion of a paper on the Lepidoptera 
of Japan and Corea, comprising an account of the Sphingide, Bombycide, 
Notodontida, and Cymatophorida, in all 352 species. Of these thirty-eight 
Species were now described as new to science. 
Dr. Hans Gadow read a paper on the numbers and on the phylogenetic 
development of the remiges of Birds. The author showed that the number 
of primaries is of very limited taxonomic value, as was proved by the 
_ humerous exceptions mentioned in the lists contained in the paper. A 
_ comparison of the remiges of the Penguins with those of other Carinate 
seemed to indicate an extremely low stage in the Penguins, which, however, 
was not borne out by other anatomical features. The Ratite were most 
4 probably descendants of birds which formerly possessed the power of flight 
and had lost it. This view was strengthened by an examination of the 
structure of their wings and of the feathers of their nestlings. The paper 
_ concluded with general remarks upon the probable gradual development of 
the organism of flight in birds. 
: January 15, 1889.—Prof. FLower, C.B., IED. BRS President, in 
the chair. 
i The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to 
_ the Society’s Menagerie during the mouth of December, 1888, and called 
_ attention to a young Chimpanzee purchased of Mr. Cross, of Liverpool, 
December 6th, which was undoubtedly of the same species as the specimen 
purchased October 24th, 1883, still living in the Society’s Gardens, and 
was, so far as could be at present ascertained, referable to the Bald-headed 
Chimpanzee, Anthropopithecus calvus. 





