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Mr. F. E. Beddard read a paper on the visceral anatomy of the Tree- 

 Kangaroo, Dendrolagus bennettii, and pointed out the structure of the brain 

 and other organs. 



Feb. 19th.— Sir W. H. Flower, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



A report was read, drawn up by Mr. A. Thomson, the Society's Head- 

 Keeper, on the insects bred in the Insect House during the past season. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard read a paper in which he gave a description of the 

 brain of the Glutton, Gulo luscus. A second paper by Mr. Beddard con- 

 tained a description of the brain of different species of Lemurs that have 

 died in the Society's Gardens, pointing out the range of variation to be 

 observed in the cerebral convolutions of this order. 



A communication was read from Mr. C. Davies Sherborn and Dr. F. A. 

 Jeutink, in which were given the dates of the publication of the parts of 

 Siebold's ■ Fauna Japonica' and Giebel's ' Allgemeine Zoologie' (first ed.). 



A communication was read, from Dr. J. de Bedriaga, " On the Pyrenean 

 Newt, Molge aspera, Duges," dealing with the external, osteological, and 

 larval characters of this imperfectly-known Batrachian, and giving an account 

 of its habits. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



February 6th, 1895. — Professor Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., President, 

 in the chair. 



The President announced that he had nominated the Right Hon. Lord 

 Walsingham, F.R.S., Mr. Henry John Elwes, F.L.S., aud Prof. Edward B. 

 Poulton, F.R.S., Vice-Presidents of the Society for the Session 1895-96. 



Mr. Charles Nicholson was elected a Fellow. 



Mr. W. F.H. Blandford made some remarks regarding M. Brongniart's 

 donation to the library of his monograph entitled " Recherches pour servir 

 a rHistoire des Insectes Fossiles des Temps Primaires." Mr. Blandfora 

 also called attention to figures of pupse of species of Spalgis (Lycsenidse) in 

 the 'Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.' 



Canon Fowler exhibited, on behalf of Mr. C. A. Myers, an unusually 

 fine specimen of Sphceria robertsi, growing from the prothorax of an under- 

 larva of an Hepialus, supposed to be H. virescens, from New Zealand. 

 Mr. McLachlan said that there was a doubt whether the caterpillar should 

 be referred to this species. Mr. Blandford stated that the French Govern- 

 ment had set aside a section of the Pasteur Institute at Paris for the study 

 of entomophagous fungi. 



Prof. L. C. Miall and Mr. N. Walker commuuicated a paper " On 

 the life-history of Pericoma canescens (Psychodidae)," with an Appendix 

 by Baron Osten^Sacken. 



