Mittheilungen aus dem k. zoologischen Museum zu Dresden, herausgegeben mit Unterstützung der königlichen Sammlungen für Kunst und Wissenschaft

Abstract

DR. MEYER has now issued the third volume of his “contributions” to science from the well-filled stores of the Dresden Museum—a volume which quite equals its precursors in value and interest. The Director first gives us an account of his new cases for the exhibition of zoological objects, and supplies exact details as to their cost. These particulars may be useful for those engaged on the fittings of several other national museums which are now in process of erection. A contribution from M. Edm. de Selys-Longchamps, which follows, contains a general account, of the dragon-flies of New Guinea and the Moluccas, and descriptions of a large number of new species of these insects. We have next an account of the human skeletons and skulls in the Dresden Museum, drawn up by the Director and Herr E. Tungel jointly. The number of skulls in the collection is stated to be 836. We have then an important article by our countryman, Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, on the collections of birds belonging to certain groups, made by Dr. Meyer during his expedition to New Guinea and the Moluccas. The groups treated of in this paper are the Accipitres, Dicruridæ, and Campophagidæ, of all of which divisions Dr. Meyer obtained a goodly series of specimens, embracing among the Campophagidæ examples of nine new species.

Mittheilungen aus dem k. zoologischen Museum zu Dresden, herausgegeben mit Unterstützung der königlichen Sammlungen für Kunst und Wissenschaft.

Von Dr. A. B. Meyer. Drittes Heft, mit Tafel XXVI.–XXXV. (Dresden: Baensch, 1878.)