October 24, 1843. 
William Yarrell, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
A letter from the Society’s Corresponding Member, J. B. Harvey, 
Esq., was read. In this letter, which is dated Port Lincoln, February 
14, 1843, Mr. Harvey announces that he had forwarded for the So- 
ciety’s Museum several jars, containing numerous zoological sub- 
jects preserved in spirit. ‘The specimens referred to were laid before 
the Meeting, and were contained in seventeen bottles; among them 
were many invertebrate animals of considerable interest and some 
specimens of marsupial mammals in a foetal condition. 
The Chairman observed, that it was with the greatest regret he 
had to announce the recent death of Mr. Harvey, a gentleman who 
had for many years past been one of the Society’s most active and 
zealous Corresponding Members,—one to whom the Society was 
greatly indebted for very numerous valuable presents, and for several 
interesting communications, 
A stuffed specimen of the Cassowary, presented by Her Majesty 
the Queen, and a specimen of the Great Northern Diver, presented 
by J. B. Robinson, Esq., were exhibited. On the table was alsoa 
specimen of the Common Chameleon, presented by Dr. J. B. Thomp- 
son, and in a note which accompanied it that gentleman states that 
the specimen had lived for two months in this country, but at the 
end of that time died in a spasmodic fit, apparently occasioned by 
the sting of a wasp, which had been observed flying about it. On 
the afternoon of the day that the chameleon was supposed to have 
been stung, it became very restless, and changed its hue oftener than 
usual ; it continued in this state for two days and died on the third. 
The following papers were read :— 
“Notes of the Dissection of a Female Orang-utan (Simia Satyrus, 
Linn.),” by Prof. Owen. 
“The female Orang-utan which died October 11th, 1843, was 
examined by me on the following day. Its weight was 41 lbs.; its 
age probably between five and six years. ‘I'he living animal, when 
first received at the Gardens, January 4th, 1839, weighed 33 lbs. 
8o0z. The acquisition of the permanent series of teeth had been in 
progress nearly a year. Of this series the first true molar tooth on 
each side of both upper and lower jaws was first acquired; then the 
two middle lower incisors ; next the two large middle upper incisors 
cut the gum. The two lateral upper incisors and the left lateral 
lower incisor were soon after displaced, but their successors had not 
made their appearance through the gum at the time of the death of 
the animal. At this period, therefore, the following deciduous teeth 
Nos. CXXVUI. & CXXIX.—Proceepines or Tnx Zoot. Soe. 
