LINNEAN SOCIKTi' OF LONDOX. 5 



J.uiuaiy 20tli, 1898. 



Dr. St. Gteorqe Mivaux, F.H.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the hist JVIeetini^ were read and conllrnieiJ. 



Messrs. Albert William Brown, Wilson Crosfield AVorsdell, 

 and Wiekham Flower were elected Fellows of tlie Society. 



Mr. J. E. iLirtint;, P.L.S., exhibited a series of photographs of 

 the Grey Seal {Ilalichcerus grypus) at various ages, taken from 

 life by Mr. Henry Evans, of Jura, on the Ha^keir Eock, 

 Outer Hebrides, to which place the animal resorts every autumn 

 for breeding purposes. Some of the photographs t^howed the 

 young thickly clotiied with white hair, which is ntaiued for 

 several weeks af;er birth, but is gradually shed before the animal 

 enters the watt-r. Del ails of measurement and weight were 

 given, and occasion was taken to review the status of the Grey 

 Se;d as a British species, aud to indicate its known breeding- 

 statious iu the British Islands. 



Mr. W. J. H. McCorquodale, F.L.S,, exhibited a skull of a 

 Hartebeeste whicli was one among some 50 skulls of various 

 rumiuauts be had recently received, all having their horns 

 invested by the larvae of Tinea vastella, upon the chrj^salids of 

 which he offered some remarks. The collection was from Nigeria, 

 aud was made by his brother the late Lieut. R. H. McCorquodale, 

 yrd Dragoon Guards, while doing duty as a special service officer 

 in W. Africa. He further recorded the capture by his brother, 

 in 189G, of a Giraffe from the regions of the Benue Eiver, north 

 of Calabar, remarking that the speciuien was the only one known 

 from this region of Africa, and that its skull was now deposited 

 in our National Collection. He added that through the kinduess 

 of his friend Major A. E. Festing, now in command of the Nigei' 

 Company's troops, he was expectant of further collections of 

 specimens of all possible classes of animals, with localities 

 accurately recorded. 



Mr. W. E. De Wiuton, who was present as a visitor, made some 

 remarks ou the geographical distribution of the Giraffe in Africji, 

 aud traced the limits of tne range of the Northern and Southern 

 species as far as had been ascertained. 



The following papers were read : — • 



1. " On the Larval Hyobranchial Skeleton of the Anurous 

 Batrachiaus, with special reference to the Axial Parts." By 

 \V^. G. Eidewood. D.Sc, F.L.S. 



2. 'On the ' Porus genitalis' in the Myxinidce." By E. H. 

 Burne, B.A. (Communicated by Prof. Howes, Sec. L.S.) 



