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the printer, Mr. Fleming, was not more than three hours. It so 

 happened that Mr. Fleming broke that stone by accident, and he was 

 obliged to replace it, which he no doubt did by copying Sir John Bich- 

 ardson's figure. 



Mr. Andrews said that Sir John Eichardson had at one time just 

 grounds for supposing that this fish was not taken on the coast of Ire- 

 land, and therefore he might have been excused for supposing that the 

 drawing figured in the Proceedings of the Natural History Society of 

 Dublin had been taken from his work, the "Northern Zoology." The 

 specimen formerly given to Mr. Williams to draw and that now pro- 

 duced were the only two he believed that had ever been caught on the 

 British shores; and that they proved, with the fine examples exhi- 

 bited of Cottus scorpius, that the Cottus Grcenlandicus and the Coitus 

 scorpius were identical, and therefore that the former was not a distinct 

 species. 



Francis Codd, Esq., Harcourt-street, was elected an Ordinary Mem- 

 ber of the Society. 



The Society then adjourned till the first Friday in March. 

 FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1865. 

 The Eev. S. Haughton, M. D., F. E. S., President, in the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the preceding General Meeting were read and signed. 

 The following paper was then read : — 



Notes on some of the Birds inhabiting the Southern Ocean. 

 By Captain F. W. Hutton, 23rd Eoyal Welsh Fusiliers, F. G. S. 



The notes that I have the honour to read to the Society this evening are 

 compiled from personal observations made during seven voyages round 

 the Cape of Good Hope, at various times of the year, and from infor- 

 mation obtained from my friend, Mr. Eichard Harris, E. N., who was 

 engineer on board Her Majesty's ship " Adventure," in 1857, in which 

 ship I made my last voyage. 



Mr. Harris sailed from London early in June, 1832, with a sealing 

 party, and arrived at the Prince Edward Islands, in the Southern Ocean, 

 in September, and stopped there until the following January, when they 

 left for Kerguelen's Land, or Desolation, as the sealers call it. They 

 reached this latter place at the end of January; and on the 16th of 

 March, while they were on shore, engaged in sealing, their ship was 

 wrecked, and they remained on the island until the 6th of December, 

 when they made the bold experiment of sailing in a boat, built from the 

 remains of their ship, for Tasmania, and happily reached Macquarrie 

 Harbour in safety after a voyage of six weeks. While Mr. Harris was 

 on these little-known islands he made many careful observations of the 

 habits of the birds that frequent them during the breeding season, 



