PROCEEDINGS 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF 



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January 14, 1862. ^*-'-.-»,^-.~-^— - 

 Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



Dr. P. L. Sclater exhibited, on behalf of Mr. E. Blyth, Corr. 

 Memb., a tracing of the outline of a skull of the adult male Rhino- 

 ceros sumatranus, from a specimen in the possession of Lieut. -Col, 

 Fytch, Commander of the Martaban and Tenasserim provinces, 

 Maulmein. The animal had been killed in the province of Tavoy, 

 near the Siamese frontier. The outline of the skull was reduced in the 

 drawing to one-fourth of the original. Mr. Blyth stated that another 

 example, sent to England by Col. Fytch, had the anterior horn more 

 curved and about 3 inches longer, and that this was the horn he was 

 inclined to believe Rhinoceros crossii of Dr. Gray (P. Z. S. 1854, 

 p. 250) had been founded upon. 



Extracts were read from a letter addressed to the Secretary by 

 Dr. George Bennett, F.Z.S., dated Sydney, Nov. 20th, 1861, refer- 

 ring to the proposed establishment of a Society of Acclimatisation at 

 Sydney, and regretting the failure of his attempt to keep living in 

 captivity specimens of the Koala {Phascolarctos cinereus) destined for 

 the Society. Dr. Bennett also stated that the Aviary in the Botanic 

 Gardens at Sydney then contained a pair of the Mooruk (Casuarius 

 hennettii). Albatrosses of two species (Diomedea exulans and D. me- 

 lanophrys), and a Regent-bird (Sericulus aureus') in full plumage. 



Dr. A. Giinther called the attention of the Society to the fact that a 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1862, No. I. 



