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and mob the Buzzard unmercifully. In England and Scotland I have 

 brought the mother Crow, G. corone, within a few yards by holding up a 

 partly-fledged young one ; but the male bird usually keeps well out of gun- 

 shot, and none other than the Crows immediately interested show any 

 concern. — Harold Raeburn (Halifax). 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Linnean Society of London. 



February 1st, 1894. — Prof. Stewart, President, in the chair. 



Sir Hugh Low and Mr. F. C. Smith were admitted Fellows. Dr. Johann- 

 Mueller and Mr. K. Mitsukuri were recommended by the Council for election 

 as Foreign Members. 



The President exhibited a remarkable specimeu of a South-African 

 butterfly, Teracolus halyattes, from Natal, in which the wings on one side 

 were those of a male and on the other those of a female, and made some 

 remarks on hermaphroditism in the Lepidoptera. 



On behalf of Mr. William Borrer, of Cowfold, Sussex, there was exhibited 

 a skull of the Pine Marten, Maries sylvatica, Nilsson, from a specimen killed 

 near Crawley (Zool. 1891, p. 458), an examination of which confirmed the 

 view of the late E. R. Alston (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 469), that, so far as 

 could be ascertained, this is the only species of Marten found in the British 

 Islands. 



On behalf of Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier, there was exhibited a drawing of a 

 Snow Leopard, taken for the first time from life — namely, from the animal 

 now living in the Zoological Society's Gardens, Kegent's Park. The long, 

 thick, and soft fur, suggestive of a cold habitat, and the unusual size of the 

 wide-spreading feet, well suited for travelling over an expanse of yielding 

 snow, were noteworthy features. 



Mr. Malcolm Laurie read a paper on the Morphology of the Pedipalpi. 

 He considered the first two ventral sclerites to the abdomen to be appendages, 

 and not sternites. The first of these — the genital operculum— covers the 

 ventral surface of two segments, the genital aperture, and the first pair of 

 lung-books lying beneath it. The first pair of lung-books, he thought, 

 probably represent the remains of the appendage of the second seg- 

 ment. The arrangement of this region resembles that in Eurypteridm 

 and in the spiders (e. g. Liphistius), while differing markedly from that in 

 Scorpions. The posterior end of the intestine is dilated into a large stercoral 

 pouch which is part of the mid-gut, the malpighian tubes arising from its 

 posterior end. The cephalothoracic portion of the mid-gut differs in 



