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iKM cmJeafiw. He also exhibited specimens oi Boirylli, preserved in Canada 
Unm, with all the colours perfect ; also the nidim of the Gunndlus attached to the 
ak side of stones found in Fowey Harbour. 
On Changes in the Fatitia of Swetho, By Professor Nilsson. 
{Ahstracledfrora the Swuxlish. By N. Shaw, M.1)^ 
Aiiproof of the oacillatious or periodical changes observed in the fauna of Sweden, 
fivi'ettor Nilsson laentioucd, that the Caiiis Fupus, at the time when Olaus Magnus 
^‘iibed bis * llistoria Gentium Septcntrionnlium’ in 15;51>, or about I|00 ymirs ago, 
n-terjrcommon in Sweden, and during the severe cold of the Swedish winter vx- 
todingly daugerouB to travellers; but that ISO years later (17S<!i, or 21 years prior 
-dietopcarance of LinniBUs’s ‘fauna Suecica*) tbe same animal bad become very 
w. Id imr days this animal bos again reappeared in largo numbers, uUliougU by 
•ioeaiBso iiutnctous or SO dangerous in the times of Olous Magnus. .‘iRuuier 
the VtsjierlUh neclulu, tlio largest of ibe Swedish bats, wa« formerly not 
*ad in Sweden, and was unknown to Linnicu*. Relziua ol SUiekbohn {who likcwue 
‘piblisheda‘Fauna Suecica’) never saw this and Nilsson, during the 
-1 ita years he collected the materials for his Swedith faumi, never met the anitnal 
ti« dire or ia any of die Swedish nmseuins. But a very few years after tbe pul^ 
wtion of Nilsjon's ‘ Fantia Suecica, ’ or about the year 1825, the / espcriilio noct«/a 
■tilt iit anpearance in the south of Sweden, and has become numerous in the walls 
ftin, uijieut cathedral of Limd. 'fbU him formerly been llic case; and during 
•we iite rejwirs to the cutheclral, a number of very nndent bones uud skeletons 
WbMa, the greater part of nliicb belonged to tho werodiacovered 
1»liole ia the old walk It is very clear that tlieau bones must have rtunuined in 
^volii about 700 years, and at a time when the animal was very frequent m 
”tden. Since that date it vanished from the country, and has again in ovir time 
''Reared. 
•Uong birds, the same periodical chniige takes ]'1ace. The Motacilla alba was 
years ago very imineroiis in Sweden, has since vanished, and again reap- 
f*>ted, The Pyrrhuln vulgaris has, as far back as Nilssou remembers, hecn very 
*»mnn in^ Scania every winter; but during the last three winters not a single ex- 
of tiiis little friendly guest has been seen near Liuul. 
of a Paper on the Pisfrihution of Pojnilniion in the Chnhric Chersonese. 
By N. SiiAW, M.D, 
different people from tbe Lafit towards the IV eat.—1. Races from Iran, 
6 llighkntlsof Perria, Media, &c.—after Rclzius, ofDoUcocephalic, or lengthened 
^'onn of cranium.— 2. Races from Turm, or the marc northern and eastern 
hUk , Utachycephalic, or shortened oval form of cranium. Aboriginal 
r-’ioton aod _... .. 
in ScMidiSr(Nlw‘'ind inhabitants of Scandi- 
South at a time when Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Germany 
iinuous. Last race (the Norra?nn, after Rudolph K-eysai l andved in * 
J* « a comparaUvoly laU period, from the North and Rust, and, procoedmg Smutn, 
their ancient Germanic connexions, who from the 8outU 
S? n''^ Scandinavis. or at lenst as far us .luUand.-Saxons, Angles, 
icSl &c- Digerences of Languages in .SUmetg. Unity ol he 
of Ibe Germamc, uud views of the two parUes as to the 
fl.^E & Monday a lecture was delivered at the RadcUffe Lib^by 
'^“tory of tbe Dodo and other allied species nf ^mds. 
!>«iQ ^ historical data that each of the three islands of the Indo-AfricM 
Mauntms, Rodriguez and Bourbon, was originally inhabited by peculiar 
