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Show PROCEEDINGS OF THE SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS OP THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. January 3, 1871. Professor Huxley, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. Professor Flower exhibited and made remarks on a mounted skull of the common Sturgeon (Acipenser sturio), from the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. In this specimen, which had been prepared with great care by Mr. James Flower, the cartilaginous portions of the skull had been replaced by exact models of them made in wood, so that a much more complete idea could be gained of the whole structure than in ordinary examples. Mr. Tegetmeier exhibited and made remarks on a specimen (in the flesh) of a female of the Great Bustard (Otis tarda), which had been killed on the 29th ult. near Feltham in Middlesex. Mr. Gould exhibited and made remarks on a skin of Lady Rosse's Touraco (Musophaga rossice), just received in a collection of birds from Loanda. But one specimen of this rare bird was hitherto known to exist in scientific collections, namely that formerly living in Lady Rosse's possession, upon which Mr. Gould had founded the species in 1851*. ______ Mr. A. R. Wallace, F.Z.S., read the following extracts from letters of Mr. John Wallace : - „ Stockton, California, May 1870. " There is common on dry sandy plains a small animal known * See P. Z. S. 1851, p. 93. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1871, No. I. |