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of opinion that the Greek should take precedence of the Latin” ? To designate 
species! Why I thought that the rule (erroneously) claimed for Cuvier, Rnd 
first laid down by me, was that Greek should be used for genera! There seems 
to be a little confusion in this. But I look forward to the pleasure of seeing Mr. 
Sweeting some time this summer, if all be well, when I will endeavour to set 
him right on this and also on some other points. 
I remain. Sir, 
Faithfully yours, 
F. 0. Morris. 
PROCEEDINGS OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Aug. 22.—The ordinary meeting was held on Tuesday evening, Thomas Bell, 
F.R.S., in the chair.—Mr. Owen exhibited the cranium of an Oran Outan from 
Borneo, the dentition of which was intermediate with all the known species, and 
which was the only example that had been seen in Europe.—Mr. Charlesworth 
explained some facts on the structure of the Argonauts, particularly on the re¬ 
production of certain parts of the shell. 
ROYAL SOCIETY. 
The following abstract of a paper on the temperature of insects, and its 
connexion with the functions of respiration and circulation,” by Mr. George 
Newport, is extracted from The Athenceum of August 26. The account is of 
such interest that we shall present it without curtailment. 
The author states at the commencement, that although it has long been 
known that insects living in society, as the Bee and the Ant, maintain in their 
habitations a temperature higher than that of the open air, the fact had never 
yet been established that individual insects of every kind possess a more elevated 
temperature than that of the medium in which they reside, and that in each 
species the degree of elevation varies in the different stages of their existence. 
He was first led to study the temperature of insects in consequence of the various 
results which he had met with in some observations he had himself made, in the 
autumn of 1832, on a species of wild Bee in its natural haunts, with a view to 
ascertain, as had been suggested to him by Dr. Marshall Hall, the relation 
between the temperature of these insects during their hybernation, and the 
irritability of their muscular fibre: but the fact of the existence of a higher 
