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•■are probably very numerous in South Africa, but little attention 

 liad been paid to them. Only a few meagre lists of South 

 African Bdelloida, with no description of new species, had been 

 published when in 1911 Murray's Bdelloid Rotifera of South 

 Africa was issued. In it he mentioned fifty-three species as 

 liaving been found, forty of which he had himself seen. Of these 

 "forty Mr. Milne had seen all but seven, and of the other thirteen 

 lie had seen ten. He had been enabled to widen the scope of 

 his investigations by the help of several friends, who provided 

 moss from various localities, and some of the species were named 

 after them. Mr. Milne had corresponded with Mr. Bryce, and 

 Tiad received assistance and helpful suggestions from him, and 

 also from Mr. James Murray. Mr. Bryce had done a great 

 ■service to students of Bdelloida in publishing his new classifica- 

 tion. He had brought order out of what was fast becoming 

 •chaos and his classification was excellent. 



Mr. Milne's paper (Part I) treats of one new family, two 

 new genera, fourteen new species, and two new varieties of 

 South African Rotifera. In addition to the systematic defini- 

 tion, details of structure, habitats, mode of life, feeding, method 

 of swimming and crawling, and even their capacity for enduring 

 captivity are fully described. It was impossible to give all this 

 during one evening ; but Mr. Milne had prepared lantern slides 

 from the drawings illustrating the paper, and with their assis- 

 tance alluded to some of the most interesting points of a number 

 of species. 



The Chairman expressed great appreciation of the paper, 

 with its description of such a large number of new species. He 

 invited discussion, and himself inquired whether Mr. Milne had 

 come across any males among the rotifers of South Africa. 



Mr. David Bryce regretted the absence of Mr. Rousselet, who 

 would have enjoyed the paper. He said all would look forward 

 to the second part, containing the remainder of the species. 

 He was pleased to see Mr. Milne proposed to make a new family 

 for Monoceros, which was quite necessary. It was interesting 

 to know this species had been found in England — he had found 

 it in the river Lydd, and the late Mr. Dunstall had found it at 

 Xynton. He was sure we should all be pleased to have the 

 paper in the Journal. 



Mr. Milne, in answer to the chairman, said he had not come 



