The following gentlemen were unanimously elected into the Council:—Lieut.-Col. Grant, C.B., Mr. William Carruthers, Mr. Robert Hudson, Dr. John Millar, and Dr. R.C.A. Prior, in the room of the subjoined who retired—Mr. George Bentham, General Scott, C.B., Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, Mr. H.T. Stainton, and Mr. Charles Stewart. No change was made in President and officers, all being re-elected.—J. Murie.
Zoological Society of London.
June 5, 1877.— Prof. W.H. Flower, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the chair.
A communication was read from Dr. A.B. Meyer, enclosing a paper by the late Dr. Bowerbank, describing five new species of sponges, discovered by Dr. Meyer in the Philippine Islands and New Guinea during his recent travels in the Eastern Archipelago.
A communication was read from Mr. E.L. Layard, containing some remarks on the exact localities of certain species of birds of the Islands of the South Pacific.
A second communication from Mr. Layard contained remarks on a paper by Mr. R.B. Sharpe on the Cuculidæ of the Ethiopian Region.
A communication was read from Mr. Arthur G. Butler, containing an account of a collection of Lepidoptera, made at Cape York and on the South-East Coast of New Guinea, by the Rev. J.S. MacFarlane. Of these five butterflies and four moths were described as new to science.
Dr. A. Günther read a report on a collection of fishes made during the late Arctic Expedition by Mr. Hart, Naturalist on board H. M.S. 'Discovery.' Amongst them was a new species of Charr, from a lake near the winter quarters of the 'Discovery,' which was proposed to be called Salmo Naresi.
A communication was read from Mr. D.G. Elliot, containing a review of the genera and species of Ibidinæ or subfamily of Ibises.
A communication was read from Mr. Martin Jacoby, containing the descriptions of some new species of Phytophagous Coleoptera from various parts of the world.
Messrs. P.L. Sclater and O. Salvin read descriptions of six apparently new species of birds from collections lately received from Ecuador and Peru. Amongst these was a remarkable new duck of the genus Fuligula from the vicinity of Lima, Peru, proposed to be called Fuligula Nationi, after Prof. Nation, its discoverer.
Mr. A.H. Garrod read the third part of his series of papers on the anatomy of Passerine Birds, and treated specially of some modifications of the tracheophonine larynx, which he had lately ascertained to occur in the genera Pteroptochus and Grallaria.
