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Kupffer's vesicle, also at the 8! day, and the newly hatched embryo. — 
J. Murie. 
3. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 
26th March, 1884. — 1. Botanical. — 2. The Australian Hydro- 
medusae, by R. von Lendenfeld, Ph.D., Part I. Itis proposed in this 
paper to describe a series of new species of Hydromedusae of our shores. As 
most essays on the Hydromedusae dwell exclusively either on the Hydroid 
Zoophytes or on the Medusae and as this course is not in accordance with our 
present view of Zoological classification a new classification of the Hydro- 
medusae is proposed. This classification is marked out in the present paper. 
The present paper forms a Prodromus of a system of the Hydroid Zoophytes 
and Craspedote Medusae, which will be used and marked out in detail in sub- 
sequent Papers. The order of the Hydromedusae is here divided into five 
Suborders and twenty-one Families. — 3. The Scyphomedusae of the Sou- 
thern Sea. By R. von Lendenfeld, Ph.D. Part II. This paper is a 
continuation of the paper read at the last meeting of the Society, and con- 
tains a description of all the species of the third order of the Scyphomedusae, 
the Cubomedusae, which have been described from the South Sea. — 4. Bo- 
tanical. — Mr. Ramsay exhibited a fine collection of Marine animals in 
illustration of the new and perfect methods of mounting and preserving spe- 
cimens in use by Senor Lo Bianco, at Dr. Dohrn’s Zoological Station, 
Naples. Among the exhibits were Trachypterus taenia, Torpedo ocellata, Pen- 
naria Cavolinii, Eudendrium ramosum, Zoobotryum pellucidum, Pennatula phos- 
phorea, Antedon rosacea, Chromodoris elegans, Pleurophylhdea lineata, Pyrosoma 
elegans, Cestus veneris, Rhizostoma pulmo, and many other beautiful prepara- 
tions. — The President exhibited a portion of the lower jaw of a Diprotodon 
which had been found near Armidale by Mr. W.M. Harris. It was inter- 
esting to note the occurrence of the remains of this gigantic extinct marsu- 
pial on the summit of the Great Dividing Range as well as on the low-lying 
plains of the Darling District. 
IV. Personal-Notizen. 
Zum Prosector der Zool. Soc. London an Stelle des im vorigen Jahre 
am Niger gestorbenen W. A. Forbes ist Mr. Frank E. Beddard erwählt 
worden. 
Dr. Georg Ba ur, früher Assistent für Histologie an der anatomischen 
Anstalt in München, ist jetzt Assistent für Palaeontologie am Yale College 
(Prof. ©. C. Marsh) in New Haven, Conn. 
Necrolog. 
Am 9. Januar starb in Lumley, Emsworth, Hants., William Buckler, 
als Entomolog, besonders Lepidopterolog rühmlich bekannt. 
Am 7. April starb in York William Prest, ein vorzüglich für Lepi- 
dopteren thätiger Entomolog. Er war am 7. Mai 1824 in York geboren 
und hat sich um das Leben der naturwissenschaftlichen Vereine seiner 
Grafschaft sehr verdient gemacht. 
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