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III. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Mittheilung. 



Herr Pietro Bono mi, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 84, Cagliari, 

 Sardinia, ist in der Lage, sämmtliche auf der Insel vorkommende 

 Vögel, Säugethiere (namentlich auch Mufflons), Reptilien, Insecten, 

 Mollusken, Fische, so wie auch ganze Herbarien oder einzelne seltene 

 Pflanzen zu mäßigen Preisen zu liefern. Seit dem Frühjahr 1885, zu 

 welcher Zeit ich eine Reise durch Sardinien mit Herrn Bono mi 

 machte, bin ich mit ihm bekannt und befreundet und empfehle den- 

 selben den Herren Fachgenossen und Interessenten auf das Wärmste 

 als wackeren Mann und tüchtigen Sammler. 



Bonn, den 3. Juli 1886. 



Prof. G. vom Rath. 



2. Anatomische Anstalt in Greifswald. 



Am 1. October d. J. wird die mit einem etatsmäßigen Gehalt von 

 1350 Mark verbundene Stelle eines Assistenten frei. Nähere Auskunft 

 ertheilt der Director J. Budge. 



3. Zoological Society of London. 



29*^ June, 1886. — The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Mr. 

 John Brazier , of Sydney, N.S.W., C.M.Z.S., a series of eggs of the Pacifie 

 Porphyrie [Porphyrio vitiensis) ; and read a note showing the extraordinary 

 fecundity of an individual of this species, which had laid in seven years 

 491 eggs. — The Secretary read a letter addressed to him by Capt. Vi- 

 pan, F.Z.S., giving particulars of the nesting of a South- American Siluroid 

 Pish [Callichihys littoralis) in his aquarium. — A communication was read 

 from Mr. Gilbert C. Bourne , containing general observations on the fauna 

 of Diego Garcia, the southernmost island of the Chagos Group, situated in 

 the centre of the Indian Ocean. — Mr. Howard Saunders read a paper 

 containing a description of the collection of birds obtained by Mr. Gilbert 

 C. Bourne on the island of Diego Garcia. The species represented in the 

 collection were stated to be fourteen in number, of which one only was a 

 land-bird (introduced), the remainder being oceanic birds or migrants of 

 wide distribution. — Mr. J. Bland Sutton, F.Z.S., read a paper on the 

 intervertebral disk between the odontoid process and the centrum of the axis 

 in man. — Prof. R. Ramsay Wright, F.Z.S., gave an account of Sphyra- 

 nura Osleri, a recently-discovered ectoparasitic Trematode^ intermediate be- 

 tween Gyrodactylus and Polystomum, which infests the gills and skin of 

 Menohranchus. — A communication was read from Mr. Gervase F. Ma- 

 thew, R.N., F.Z.S., containing descriptions of a new genus and some new 

 species of Rhopalocera which he had obtained during a recent visit to the 

 Solomon Islands. — Mr. R. Bowdler S h arpe read a paper containing an 

 account of a collection of birds from Perak, which contained examples of 

 several forms hitherto only known from Sumatra. — A second paper by Mr. 

 Sharp e continued the series of his notes on the specimens in the Hume 



