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Zoological Society, Nov. 4.-Prof. Newton, F.R.S., vice-president, in the chair. The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the Society's menagerie during the months of June, July, August, and September. Mr. G. Dawson Rowley exhibited a singular malformed variety of the Domestic Duck, and the Secretary a collection of fishes (containing six examples of Ceratodus forsten) made by Mr. Ramsay, in Queensland.-A communication was read from Mr. J. B. Perrin, containing an account of the Myology of the Hoatczin (Opisthocomus cristatus}.- A communication was read from Capt. R. Beavan, Bengal Staff Corps, containing a list of fishes met with in the River Ner-budda, in India.-A second communication from Capt. Beavan contained some remarks on certain difficulties involved in the acceptance of the Darwinian theory of evolution. -A communication was read from Mr. Montague R. Butler, containing descriptions of several new species of Diurnal Lepidoptera.-A communication was read from Mr. R. Swinhoe, H.B.M. Consul at Chefoo, on the Song-Jay of Northern China, with further notes on Chinese ornithology.-Mr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., exhibited and pointed out the characters of fourteen new species of birds collected by Signor Luigi Maria D'Albertis during his recent expedition into the interior of New Guinea.-A communication was read from Prof. J. V. Barboza du Bocage, on the Ground Hornbill of Southern Africa--oto/w carunculatus cafer of Schlegel. -A second communication from Prof. Barboza du Bocage contained a note on the habitat of Euprepes coctei, Dum. et Bibr.-A communication was read from Surgeon-Major Francis Day, containing descriptions of new or little known Indian fishes.-Mr. R. B. Sharpe, read a paper describing the contents of a collection of birds recently received from Mombas in Eastern Africa. -A second paper by Mr. R. B. Sharpe contained a list of a collection of birds from the River Congo.-Mr. G. B. Sowerby, jun., communicated the descriptions of eleven new species of shells.-A communication was read from Dr. J. E. Gray, F. R.S., ori the skulls and alveolar surfaces of Land Tortoises, Testudinata.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 9, 35–36 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/009035c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/009035c0