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Mr. Macleay considers the result promising on the whole. — Mr. Macleay 
stated that he had been informed by Professor McCoy, that the large shark 
captured at Portland, Victoria, and which had been spoken of at last. 
month’s meeting of the Society, was the Selache maxima, or Basking Shark of 
the Arctic Seas, and that the dimensions had been correctly reported. — 
Dr. Cox exhibited the skull of a common rabbit which had been sent to him 
by the rabbit inspector of the district on the Darling River, between Hay 
and Wilcannia. In this skull the incisor teeth of both jaws were enormously 
elongate: the upper pair being over ?/, inch in length, curving downwards 
and outwards; the lower, 11/, inch long, in the normal direction. Professor 
Stephens pointed out that similar overgrowths were common in all rodents, 
when one or more incisors had been lost; but that in this case the abnormal 
divarication of the upper pair, had led to the continued growth of all four 
teeth, since they could not meet so as to wear each other down. — Dr. 
Cox also exhibited some portions of large Encrinite stems from Camboon, 
Dawson River, Queensland; and two numbers of the Forest Flora of South 
Australia, by J. E. Brown, F.L.S. — Mr. Morton exhibited a fine collec- 
tion of Australian Annelids and Soft Mollusks beautifully mounted on white 
and blue glass slides. — Mr. Brazier exhibited on behalf of Mr. J. F. Bailey, 
a beautiful specimen of Cypraea contusa, McCoy, from Eocene limestone, 
Victoria. — Mr. Whitelegge exhibited under the microscope a Plumatella- 
like form, which he considered to be new, from a pond in Moore Park. 
IV. Personal-Notizen. 
Amsterdam. Dr. C. Kerbert, der die wissenschaftliche Abtheilung 
des Aquariums der Königl. Zoologischen Gesellschaft » Natura Artis Ma- 
gistra« leitet, ist zum Privatdocent der Zoologie an der Universität ernannt. 
Tübingen. Der Prosector und Privatdocent Dr. Aug. Froriep 
ist zum außerordentlichen Professor ernannt worden. 
Necrolog. 
Am 1. Juli 1883 starb in Albany, N. Y., seinem Geburtsorte, der 
bekannte Lepidopterolog Dr. James Spencer Bailey. Er war am 25. Februar 
1830 geboren. 
Am 7. August 1883 starb in Covington, Kenton Co, Kentucky, Mr. 
Vactor Tousey Chambers, einer der bekanntesten und anerkanntesten 
Microlepidopterologen Nord-Americas. 
Am 15. November 1883 starb in Philadelphia Dr. John Lawrence 
Le Conte, bekannt als ausgezeichneter Entomolog. Er war als Sohn des 
gleichfalls als Zoolog bekannten Major John E.Le Conte am 18. Mai 1825 
in New York geboren. 
Am 30. November 1883 starb in Lund Dr. Sven Nilsson, emer. Pro- 
fessor der Zoologie an der dortigen Universität, bekannt durch zahlreiche, 
besonders faunistische Arbeiten; im Jahre 1787 geb., Nestor der Zoologen. 
Berichtigung. 
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nicht als wesentlich anerkannte«, statt »und einst etc.« 
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