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was killed in the neighbourhood 7th September 1851. This specimen has 

 now found a permanent home in the Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter. 

 There is another specimen of this bird in the collection, whose history is 

 obscure and in which the beak is more curved than in the specimen exhibi- 

 ted. — Mr. Clarence Bartlett exhibited a remarkable specimen of Cater- 

 pillar about 7 inches long, of a steel grey colour, hairy and spiny, which he 

 believed to have been brought from Africa? — Mr. A. Hammond drew 

 attention to a microscopic section of the integument of the larva of a Dipte- 

 rous insect, Stratiomys Chamœleon, raising the question as to whether the poly- 

 gonal areas described by Viallanes on the external surface of the cuticle 

 were cellular in their nature (as Mr. Hammond suggested) or mere surface 

 markings. — A paper was read by Mr. Edward C. B ousf ield on the anne- 

 lids Slavina and Ophidonais. In this communication he makes comments on 

 Vejdovskys new genus Slavina, and objects to his identification of Nais 

 appendiculata, with Nais lurida, while giving a full description of the latter, 

 and observing the points of contrast. He also describes touch-organs in 

 Ophidonais similar to those of Slavina^ mentioning other points of similarity 

 between the two. He further proposes to do away with the former genus, in- 

 cluding its only species under Slavina. — Prof. Richard J. Anderson read 

 a paper on the relative lengths of the segments of limbs in the Chick during 

 development. A series of measurements have been made by him between 

 the 6th and 20th days. On or even before the 9th day the bones of the fo- 

 rearm and manus are longer than the corresponding segments of the lower 

 leg and foot. Afterwards the tarso métatarse begins to lengthen and attains 

 a greater relative size at the end of incubation. — J, Murie. 



IT. Personal -Notizen. 



Warschau. An Stelle des Prof. M. Ganin ist Prof. W. Uljanin 

 aus Moskau berufen worden. 



Necrolog. 



Am 1 . Februar starb in Freiburg i/Br. Prof. Dr. Heinr. Leop. Fischer, 

 welcher früher als Monograph der europäischen Orthopteren , in späterer 

 Zeit durch seine Untersuchungen über Jadeit als Mineralog und Geognost 

 sich den Ruhm eines ausgezeichneten Forschers erworben hat. 



Bemerkung. 



Um Irrthümer bei Herstellung von Sonderabdrücken zu ver- 

 meiden, werden die Herren Mitarbeiter ersucht, die Zahl der etwa 

 gewünschten Separate mir gleich auf dem Manuscript selbst 

 anzugeben und auch thunlichst gleichzeitig der Verlags- 

 handlung von Wilhelm Engelmann mitzutheilen. Nachträg- 

 liche, d. h. nach Ausgabe einer Nummer, eingehende Bestellungen 

 können nicht mehr berücksichtigt werden. 



Leipzig. J. Yictor Carus. 



Dieser Nummer liegt bei: Verzeichnis des neuen Verlages aus 

 dem Jahre 1885 von Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig. 



Druck von ßreitkopf & Härtel in L«ipzig. 



