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of the Patagonian Cavy, Dolichotis patagonica, from specimens recently 

 living in the Society's Gardens. 



April 21.— Prof. W. H. Flower, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, 

 in the chair. 



A communication was read from Lieut.-Col. Sir Oliver B. C. St. John, 

 R.E., containing notes on a case of a Mungoose (Herpestes mungo) breeding 

 during domestication. 



Mr. R. E. Holding exhibited and made some remarks on some 

 remarkable horns of Rams of the domestic Sheep of Highland and other 

 breeds. 



Messrs. Beddard and Murie exhibited and made remarks on a 

 cancerous nodule taken from the stomach of an African Rhinoceros 

 (Rhinoceros bicornis), which had recently died, after living twenty-two years 

 in the Society's Gardens. 



Mr. E. T. Newton read a paper on the structure and affinities of 

 Trogontherium cuvieri, basing his remarks principally on a fine skull of this 

 extinct Rodent lately obtained by Mr. A. Savin from the forest-beds of 

 East Runton, near Cromer. 



Mr. J. H. Elwes read the first part of a memoir on the butterflies col- 

 lected by Mr. W. Doherty in the Naga Hills, Assam, the Karen Hills in 

 Lower Burmah,and in the State of Perak. 



Mr. J. J. Lister gave an account of the birds of the Phoenix Islands, 

 Pacific Ocean, as collected and observed during a visit to this group made 

 in H.M.S. ' Egeria,' in 1889.— P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



April 1, 1891.— Professor R. Meldola, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. 



Mr. G. A. Booth, of Grange-over-Sands, North Lancashire; and 

 Mr. W. Manger, of New Cross, S.E., were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Capt. H. J. Elwes showed a small but very interesting collection of 

 butterflies from Laggan Alberta, N.W. Territory of Canada, taken by 

 Mr. Bean at high elevations in the Rocky Mountains. Amongst them 

 were Colias elis, Streck., which seemed to be very close to, if not identical 

 with, C. hecla of Europe ; Argynnis alberta, W. H. Edw. ; and Chionobas 

 subhyalina, W. H. Edw. The resemblance between the butterflies of this 

 locality and those found on the Fells of Lapland was very striking, some of 

 the species being identical, and others very closely allied. Capt. Elwes 

 said that it was another proof, if one were wanted, of the uniformity of the 

 butterflies found throughout the boreal region in the Old and New 

 Worlds. 



