Association assembled in Liverpool. At the request of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, in whose Museum the Allisian Collection of Comparative Osteology is preserved, it was read to that Society in 1849. In the interval between these dates, Mr. Allis had the satisfaction of shewing to the authors of that splendid publication, 4 The Dodo and its Kindred,' that their inference of the place of Dodo among tho Columbidse was entirely confirmed by the independent evidence of its Sclerotic Bones.