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Derby, and a specimen of Onychotenthus an Bergii, from Mr. Waterhouse. 
Other presents were likewise noticed, from Her Majesty, the Marchioness of 
Winchester, Sir Herbert Taylor, and others.—Mr. Cox moved, that the 
Council be recommended to establish lectures on Zoology, and to provide places 
for the dissection of animals dying at the gardens, in order to increase the utility 
of the Society. We think the motion an excellent one, and are happy to be 
enabled to add, that it was carried. 
ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
The following noblemen and gentlemen have been elected to form a committee 
of management of this Society:— President^ the Earl of Liverpool ; Vice Presi¬ 
dents^ the Duke of Bedford, K. G., the Bishop of Norwich, Sir Robert Peel, 
Bart., M. P., D. C. L., F. R. S., W. Swainson, Esq., A. C. G., F. R. S., &c.j 
N. A. Vigors, Esq., M. P., D. C. L., F. R. S.; Council —the Rev. R. Wj 
Browne, B. A., W. G. Chapman, Esq., Harry Chester, Esq., M. P., N. W. 
R. CoLBORNE, Esq., M. P., J. C. Gowen, Esq., F. G. S., Robert Gordon, Esq., 
M. P., J. E. Gray, Esq., F. R. S., Mr. W. Holl, F. G. S. (formerly Editor of 
this Magazine), Capt. Mangles, R. N., F. R. S., W. S. Macleay, Esq., M. A., 
F. L.S., the Earl of Orkney, the Rev. Cyril Page, Sir John D. Paul, Bart., 
J. F. Royle, M. D., F. R. S. 
There will be a general meeting of the Society on Saturday, the 3rd of June, 
and until that day candidates may be elected by the council on application to 
the Secretary. 
EXTRACTS FROM THE FOREIGN PERIODICALS. 
ZOOLOGY. 
1. Observations on the Kangaroos. —The Great Kangaroo [Macropus 
major J does not make use of its tail in leaping; it uses it in walking, but above 
all when standing still. When excited, the male stands upon the tips of its 
feet and tail; and it then appears of a prodigious height. When it strikes, it 
does not rest upon the tail and one foot, but, balancing a few moments upon the 
tail only, it beats before with the two legs from behind. The Kanguroo enfume 
of Cuvier never employs its legs for striking; it usually contents, itself with 
menacing with the teeth and a low growling. Dr. Robert Heron has, how¬ 
ever, seen it, when attacked by an Emu, fly at the head of the bird; but neither 
the one nor the other persevered in the combat.- When the Great Kangaroo is in 
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