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Evening Meeting, May 27, 1851. — Wm. Yarrell, Esq., in the chair. 



Mr. Vernon Harcourt exhibited a large and very interesting series of birds, which 

 he had collected in Madeira, and favoured the meeting with some remarks upon their 

 habits and distribution. 



Mr. Oswald communicated a notice by Mr. Mack, upon the fact of a white duck 

 laying black eggs. 



Mr. Cuming communicated a paper by Dr. PfeifFer, describing many species of 

 new shells from his own collection. 



The Secretary read a letter from Capt. Button relative to the habits of Ursus isa- 

 bellinus, Horsf., of which he had transmitted to England a living specimen, now in 

 the Menagerie. 



The Secretary also read a letter from Dr. Bowring respecting the range of the 

 Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata), in China, and informing him of the shipment of 

 three living pairs of that bird for the Society. 



Mr. Cuming communicated a Monograph of Trochids? by Mr. A. Adams. 



The Meeting adjourned to June 10. 



Monthly General Meeting, June 5, 1851. — The Rt. Hon. Sir G. Clerk, Bart., 

 M.P., Vice President, in the chair. 



Miss Fry, Lord Leigh, W. H. Flower, Esq., F. Thompson, Esq., J. D. Llewellyn, 

 Esq., and G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., were elected Fellows. F. H. Gabriel, Esq., James 

 Blyth, Esq., Professor Percy, H. Wilson, Esq., J. Lubbock, Esq., C. S. Crowley, Esq., 

 and — Evans, Esq., were proposed as Candidates for the Fellowship. 



The Report of the Council stated that among the additions to the Menagerie dur- 

 ing the month of May, was included a second specimen of the great Malayan tapir, 

 which had been obtained for the Society through the obliging exertions of John Dun- 

 bar, Esq., Judge of the Suddur Court at Calcutta. A living specimen of the great red 

 kangaroo from the interior of Australia, has now been obtained for the first time; and 

 among the donations, there are two other Australian species, which are also entirely 

 new to the collection. These are the (Edicnemus grallarius, presented by Dr. Mayo, 

 and a singularly curious lizard, presented by the Hon. Mr. Hope. 



The number of visitors during May, presented a large increase over the correspond- 

 ing period of last year, and was, in fact, the largest ever known. — D. W. M. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



June 2, 1851. — J. 0. Westwood, Esq., President, in the chair. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be given to the 

 respective donors : — 'The Zoologist' for June; by the Editor. 'The Athenaeum' 

 for May ; by the Editor. ' Entomologische Zeitung' for May; by the Entomological 

 Society of Stettin. ' Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou,' 

 1850, No. 2 ; by the Society. ' Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Classe 

 der Koeniglich Bayerischen Akademie da Wissenchaften,' band v. parts 2 & 3: Bul- 

 letin, ditto, 1848 — 50 : by the Academic. ' Hymcnopterologischc Studien von Arnold 

 IX. 2 D 



