PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
January 14, 1862. 
Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., V-P., in the Chair. 
Dr. P. L. Sclater exhibited, on behalf of Mr. E. Blyth, Corr. 
Memb., a tracing of the outline of a skull of the adult male Rhino- 
ceros sumatranus, from a specimen in the possession of Lieut.-Col. 
Fytch, Commander of the Martaban and Tenasserim provinces, 
Maulmein. The animal had been killed in the province of Tavoy, 
near the Siamese frontier. The outline of the skull was reduced in the 
drawing to one-fourth of the original. Mr. Blyth stated that another 
example, sent to England by Col. Fytch, had the anterior horn more 
curved and about 3 inches longer, and that this was the horn he was 
inclined to believe Rhinoceros crossii of Dr. Gray (P. Z. 8. 1854, 
p- 250) had been founded upon. 
Extracts were read from a letter addressed to the Secretary by 
Dr. George Bennett, F.Z.S., dated Sydney, Nov. 20th, 1861, refer- 
ring to the proposed establishment of a Society of Acclimatisation at 
Sydney, and regretting the failure of his attempt to keep living in 
captivity specimens of the Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) destined for 
the Society. Dr. Bennett also stated that the Aviary in the Botanic 
Gardens at Sydney then contained a pair of the Mooruk (Caswarius 
bennettii), Albatrosses of two species (Diomedea exulans and D. me- 
lanophrys), and a Regent-bird (Sericulus aureus) in full plumage. 
Dr. A. Giinther called the attention of the Society to the fact that a 
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