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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. 
Y. 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, 2Qth February. — John Coldstream, M.D,, President, 
iu 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 tbe 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, hy 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 tha great loss which the Society had recently 
sustained in the death of Mr John S. Livingston, one of the 
