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21st May, 1895. — Mr. Sclater made some remarks on the Zoologi- 

 «al Institutions he had recently visited in Egypt. These were the new Zoo- 

 logical Garden at Gizeh, the Zoological Museum in the Government Medical 

 School at Cairo, and the Ostrich-farm at Matarieh. — Mr. Howard Saun- 

 ders exhibited and made remarks on a hybrid Duck. — Dr. R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe gave an account of the ornithological collection made by Dr. Do- 

 naldson Smith during his recent expedition into Somaliland and Gallaland. 

 The present series contained about 500 specimens, which were referred to 

 182 species. Of these twelve were considered to be new to science. — Mr. 

 G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., read a synopsis of the genera and species of 

 Apodal Batrachians, and gave a description of a new genus and species pro- 

 posed to be called Bdellophis vittatus. — Lt.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, 

 F.R.S., read a list of the Land-Molluscs of the Andaman and Nicobar 

 Groups of Islands in the Bay of Bengal, and gave descriptions of some new 

 species, together with a complete account of the distribution of all the spe- 

 cies in the various islands of these two groups. — A communication was 

 read from Dr. J. Anderson, F.R.S. , containing the description of a new 

 species of Hedgehog from Somaliland, which he proposed to name Erinaceus 

 Sclateri. — A communication from Mr. R. Lydekker contained notes on 

 the structure and habits of the Sea-Otter [Latax lutris) . — A communication 

 was read from Dr. B. C. A. Windle containing remarks on some double 

 malformations observed amongst fishes. — Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S. , 

 read a paper on the visceral and muscular anatomy of Cryptoprocta , dealing 

 chiefly with the brain , alimentary canal, and muscles of this Carnivore. — 

 P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



in. Personal-Notizen. 



Cincinnati. Mr. Charles D. Aldright, now at the University of 

 Munich , has been elected to the instructorship in biology in the University 

 of Cincinnati, U.S.A. 



Necrolog. 



Am 3. Januar 1895 starb in Washington, D.C., Dr. Georg Marx, der 

 bekannte Archaeolog. Er war am 22. Juni 1838 in Laubach, Großherzog- 

 thum Hessen, geboren, war 1860 nach Nordamerica gegangen, im Secessions- 

 kriege schwer verwundet worden , und hatte an der entomologischen 

 Abtheilung des Department of Agriculture die Stelle als Vorstand der 

 Illustrationsabtheilung inne. 



Am 29. Juni starb in London Thomas Henry Huxley; geb. 4. Mai 

 1825 in Ealing. 



Drnck von Breitkopf k Hfirtel in Leipzig. 



