PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 3, 187 1 . 



Professor Huxley, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



Professor Flower exhibited and made remarks on a mounted skull 

 of the common Sturgeon {Acipenser sturio), from the Museum of 

 the Royal College of Surgeons. In this specimen, which had been 

 prepared with great care by Mr. James Flower, the cartilaginous 

 portions of the skull had been replaced by exact models of them 

 made in wood, so that a much more complete idea could be gained 

 of the whole structure than in ordinary examples. 



Mr. Tegetmeier exhibited and made remarks on a specimen (in 

 the flesh) of a female of the Great Bustard (Otis tarda), which had 

 been killed on the 29th ult. near Feltham in Middlesex. 



Mr. Gould exhibited and made remarks on a skin of Lady Rosse's 

 Touraco (Musophaga rossia), just received in a collection of birds 

 from Loanda. But one specimen of this rare bird was hitherto 

 known to exist in scientific collections, namely that formerly living 

 in Lady Rosse's possession, upon which Mr. Gould had founded the 

 species in 1851*. 



Mr. A. R. Wallace, F.Z.S., read the following extracts from letters 

 of Mr. John Wallace :— „ g^ton, California, May 1870. 



" There is common on dry sandy plains a small animal known 

 * See P. Z. S. 1851, p. 93. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc.— 1871, No. I. 



