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Anatomy at Cambridge, I would refer to the “ Occasional Notes ” 
in our Eeport. 
In September, the liev. J. Crompton exhibited a most valuable 
collection of bones of several species of Moa from New Zealand, 
sent by Dr. Julius Von Haast, for the Norwich Museum; each 
bone carefully identified as to species, and in sufficient numbers to 
illustrate the structure of these remarkable birds, the extinction of 
which took place at probably a very recent date. 
The approaching exhaustion of the seal as a British resident 
gave an additional but painful interest to Mr. Southwell’s paper on 
the British Pinnipedia. The walrus has been seen at the Orkneys 
so lately as 1857 ; but from the activity with which the chase of 
this species is being carried on by the northern sealers, the stations 
of this remarkable animal must eventually become more remote, 
and the chancos of a visit from a straggler less probable. The seal, 
once a numerous visitor to our shores is now far less common. In 
his day, Sir Thomas Brown mentions it as frequently taken, 
sleeping on the shore ; and that it was a regular visitor in the 
rivers, is evident from the fact, that at Ipswich its capture 
seems to have been systematically carried on, as bone harpoons 
used for that purpose have been recovered from the mud of the 
Orwell, and were in the collection of the late Mr. William Fitch, 
of Ipswich. 
The papers which the Journal Committee have decided to 
publish, will speak for themselves, and require no eulogy from me. 
The success of the attempt to naturalize the edible frog ( liana 
esculenta), seems now established. Professor Newton’s account 
of his re-discovery of the species, will be read with interest. 
Mr. Bridgman’s notes on the H ymenoptera, show how much may 
yet be added to our recorded knowledge, by the energetic persistent 
labours of a single individual. 
Mr. Plowwright’s paper on the Brandon Fungi , exhibits in a 
remarkable degree the extent to which this class may be developed 
under favourable circumstances, even in so restricted an area as a 
sawdust heap. In this branch of botany we thus owe to a 
member of our Society, the addition of a species new to science, the 
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