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I have only received a single specimen of £his species, and 

 its very curious greatly-developed anterior tarsi lead me to 

 suppose that it is a male. 



V. List of Coleoptera from Old Calabar. By Andrew Murray, W.S. 

 (An extensive collection of insects was exhibited.) 



This paper will be found in the Appendix. 



The President, Mr Robert Chambers, after expressing his admiration 

 of the zeal and talents of Professor Jameson of Quito and the U. P. Mis- 

 sionaries at Old Calabar, from which the Royal Physical Society had so 

 often profited, moved that the thanks of the Society should be conveyed 

 to them, — a motion which was carried unanimously ; and Mr Murray was 

 requested to communicate accordingly to Professor Jameson, the Rev. Mr 

 Waddell, Mr Goldie, and Mr Wylie. 



Dr John Alex. Smith exhibited the cranium of a red deer (Cervus ela- 

 plius), which showed an interesting variety in the development of its 

 antlers ; the right antler being without branches, and 13 inches in length ; 

 and the left 16f long, with its first branch, or brow antler (as it is com- 

 monly termed, from projecting over the brow), 6§- inches long, but in this 

 case rising from the back part of the horn, at about 2 inches from its 

 base, and projecting backwards. The stag was believed to be of great age, 

 and the horns may show an accidental variety depending on that cause ; 

 it was recently shot at the Doune of Rothiemurchus by Lord Alexander 

 Russell, to whose politeness the Society was indebted for its exhibition. 

 Dr Smith also exhibited a rabbit, taken in a trap near Carnwath, in the 

 beginning of this month, and kindly sent to him by Mr John Dickson, 

 gunmaker, Princes Street, from the singularity of the extreme length of 

 the fur on the upper part of its body. The peculiarity was believed to 

 be dependent on the rabbit being a cross with an escaped individual of 

 the long-haired, so-called Russian breed, which are frequently kept by 

 rabbit fanciers. 



Wednesday, 2±th December 1856.— W. H. Lowe, M.D., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Office-Bearers for the session 1856-7 were elected as follows : — 



Presidents. — William H. Lowe, M.D. ; J. H. Balfour, M.D., Professor 

 of Botany, University of Edinburgh ; Andrew Murray, Esq., W.S. 



Council. — Robert K. Greville, LL.D. ; Rev. John Fleming, D.D., 

 Professor of Natural Science, New College, Edinburgh ; William Rhind, 

 Esq. ; M. Forster Heddle, M.D. ; Robert Chambers, Esq. ; Thomas Stre- 

 thill Wright, M.D. 



Secretary. — John Alexander Smith, M.D. 



