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Pol entstelien die Kopfkeime (bei den Kieferegeln nebst provi- 

 sorischen Bildungen) . Aus der vierten größeren Furchungs- 

 kugel bilden sich die ganzen Kumpfkeime. Jede dieser 

 primären Anlagen (der Kopf- und Rumpfkeime) differenzirt 

 sich dann weiterhin in Ectoderm und Mesoderm. 

 Kopenhagen, December 1885. 



III. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



2nd February, 1886. — Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier, F.Z.S., exhibited 

 and made remarks on a Pheasant from the Persian borders of Transcaucasia. 

 — Mr. C.A.Wright, F.Z.S., exhibited a Dove of the genus Turiur from 

 Malta, and identified it as a semi-albino variety of Ttirtur auritus. — Mr. 

 Sclater exhibited, on behalf of Mr. W. H. Dobie, a young specimen of 

 Sabine's Gull (Xema Sahinii), which had been obtained at Mostyn on the 

 coast of Flintshire. — Mr. Seebohm exhibited a specimen of Ross's Sea- 

 Gull [Larus Rossi) obtained in June last in the neighbourhood of Christian- 

 haab. Disco Bay, Greenland. — Capt. R. G. W ardi aw Ramsay exhibi- 

 ted and remarked on a specimen of a new bird of the genus Copsychus ob- 

 tained by Mr. H. Pryer in North-eastern Borneo, which he proposed to call 

 C. niger. — A communication was read, from Prof. R. Collett, C.M.Z.S., 

 containing an account of the external characters of the Northern Fin -Whale 

 [Balœnoptera borealis), based upon the examination of numerous specimens 

 of this Whale killed on the coast of Norway during the past summer. — A 

 communication was read from Dr. G. S tewardson Brady , F.R.S., con- 

 taining descriptions of some new freshwater Entomostracous Crustaceans 

 from South Australia. — Dr. H. Woodward, F.Z.S,, communicated, on be- 

 half of Dr. Monticelli, a catalogue of the species of Bats found in South 

 Italy. — Mr. R. B. Sharpe, F.Z.S. , read the first of a series of notes on 

 birds in the Hume Collection. The present communication treated of the 

 specimens supposed to belong to the Hawfinch of Europe, which had been 

 collected at Attock, and showed that they belong to a diff'erent species, which 

 Mr. Sharpe proposed to call Coccothraustes Htimii. — Mr. F. E. Beddard 

 read the third of his series of notes on the Isopoda collected during the 

 voyage of H.M.S. , Challenger'. The present paper completed the preliminary 

 description of the new species of this group collected during the voyage, 

 which amounted altogether to about forty-five in number. — Mr. J. H. 

 Leech, F.Z.S., exhibited and described specimens of a Butterfly from Mo- 

 gador, which he referred to a variety of Anthocharis eupheno, — P. L. Scla- 

 ter, Secretary. 



2. Linnean Society of London. 



4th February 1886. — Mr. James Dallas exhibited a specimen of 

 the Glossy Ibis [Plegadis falcinellus L.) which was purchased last spring 

 from Mr. James H. Clyde, of Bradworthy Vicarage, near Holsworthy, De- 

 von, in whose possession, or that of his family it had been from the time it 



