6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Dr. C. W. Andrews, F.G-.S., gave a short accouat of his recent 

 visit to Egypt, and showed lanteru-sHdes illustrating some of the 

 districts in which vertebrate fossils were collected. The most im- 

 portant journeys were to Mozara with Mr. T. Barrow, and to the 

 Tayum with Mr. H. J. L. Beadnell, officers of the Egyptian 

 Geological Survey. In the former locality remains of Mastodon, 

 Bracliyodus, and other vertebrates of Lower Miocene age were 

 found ; and in the latter a large series of bones from Middle and 

 Upper Eocene beds were collected. These include a number of ' 

 very interesting forms, some of which (Palceomastodoyi and Moeri- 

 tlierium) seem to be early Proboscidians, and indicate that that 

 group originated in an Ethiopian land-area which became united 

 to the Palsearctic land in Oligocene times. 



A number of plaster-casts of some of the more important speci- 

 mens were shown. 



A discussion followed in which Dr. A. Smith-Woodward, 

 Dr. Forsyth Major, and Prof. Howes took part. 



Mr. E. AliLLEE Ckrtsty, E.L.S., exhibited and made remarks 

 on a specimen of White's Thrush, Turdus varius, Pallas, which had 

 been shot near Clavering, in Essex, so long ago as January 1894, 

 and had been preserved for Mr. Eolfe, but had only recently been 

 identified as a rarity. 



Mr. J. E. Harting stated that about the same time another 

 bird of this species, which he had seen, had been procured near 

 Southampton, and that the two might well have arrived in company 

 from Siberia. After pointing out the geographical distribution of 

 the species, and its distinguishing characters, he exhibited coloured 

 figures of the egg, which is one of the rarest in collections ; and, 

 for comparison, a figure of the egg and nest of the allied Turdus 

 lunulatus of Australia. 



The Eev. John Gerard, E.L.S., exhibited a nest of the Sand- 

 Martin {Cotile riparia) made Avithin the nest of a Dipper {Cinchis 

 aqtiaticus), found near Bashall Hall, Yorkshire, in M'hich eggs of 

 the former bird had been laid and hatched after the latter had 

 ceased to occupy it. 



Mr. S. Pace exhibited specimens of the common Torres Straits 

 Snail PJanisjiira {Trachiojisis) ddessertiana, to illustrate the 

 armature of the penis with minute calcareous spines. He likewise 

 exhibited a specimen and drawings from life of a rare pelagic 

 Tectibranch, Euselenops {Neda) luniceps, taken in Eriday Island 

 Passage, Torres Straits. Only two specimens of this interesting 

 form appear to have been hitherto noted, namely the one originally 

 though erroneously figured by Cuvier (Pegne Anim. ii. p. 396), 

 which had been probably collected by Peron and Lesueur at 

 Mauritius, and another obtained during the voyage of the 

 ' Samarang ' (Adams & Eeeve, ' Zoology of the Voyage of the 

 Samaranr/,' Molluscii, p. 66, pi. 18. fig. 6). 



