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a specimen, presented to the Museum of Natural History in 

 Captain, afterwards Sir Edward Parry, which was captured 

 by him in the year 1827, as far to the north as Lat. 82° N. 



V. Dr Smith exhibited plaster casts of the skull of the 

 famous Gorilla, and also of its brain cavity. Mr Alexander 

 Stewart, No. 1 Surgeon Square, had been most successful 

 in making these casts ; and from him specimens could be 

 obtained. 



Wednesday, 26th February. — John Coldstream, M.D., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Norman Bethune, M.D.; H. W. Mitnish, Esq., M.R.C.S.L.; and 

 William M'Nab, Esq., Royal Botanic Gardens, were elected members of 

 the Society : — 



The Secretary stated he had received from the Right Honourable Sir 

 George Grey an official intimation of the Society's Address of Condolence 

 having been duly presented to her Majesty. 



The following Donations to the Library were laid on the table, and 

 thanks voted to the donors : — 



1. (1). Meteorological Observations made at Providence, R.I. By 

 Alexis Caswell. October 1860. — (2.) Meteorological Observations made 

 near Washington, Arkansas. By Nathan D. Smith, M.D. October 1860. 

 — (3.) Researches upon the Venom of the Rattlesnake, By S. Weir 

 Mitchell, M.D., Washington. January 1861. From the Smithsonian 

 Institution, U S.A. — 2. Second Report of a Geological Reconnoissance 

 of the Southern and Middle Counties of Arkansas, made during the years 

 1859 and 1860. By David Dale Owen. Philadelphia, 1860. Pre- 

 sented through the Smithsonian Institution. — 3. Proceedings of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History. Vol. VII. 16-28, and Vol. VIII. 

 1-4. From the Society. — 4. On the Sounds caused by the Circulation 

 of the Blood. By Arthur Leared, B.A., M.D., Dub. London, 1861. 

 From the Author. 



The following Communications were read : — 



I. Exhibition of Drawings, by Native Artists, of Animals collected in 

 India, belonging to the different Great Divisions of the Animal 

 Kingdom. By Walter Elliot of Wolfelee, Esq. Communicated 

 by John Coldstream, M.D. 



After some introductory remarks on the occasion of his 

 occupancy of the chair for the first time since his re-election 

 as one of the Presidents of the Society, Dr Coldstream ad- 

 verted to the great loss which the Society had recently 

 sustained in the death of Mr John S. Livingston, one of the 



