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vallecula Sylvii and the eminentia natiformis are much more distinct 

 than in the Prototherian cerebrum. 



The cerebrum of Notoryctes resembles that of Perameles tia&uta 

 more than that of any other marsupial , a fact to be explained by a 

 functional resemblance rather than by any relationship between the 

 two animals. In its histological features it closely resembles such 

 lowly marsupials as Perameles and Dasyuriis , an account of whose 

 cerebrum I shall shortly publish. 



A fuller account of this brain, with figures was sent to the Royal 

 Society of South Australia in May last, and will probably be published 

 towards the end of the year. 



II. MittheiluDgen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



19th November, 1895. — The Secretary read a report on the addi- 

 tions that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the months of 

 June, July, August, and September, 1895. — A letter was read from Mr. J. 

 H. Gurney, F.Z.S. , respecting a Kingfisher [Alceclo Beavani) which had 

 been lately ascertained to be a permanent resident in some parts of Ceylon. 

 — Mr. Sclater gave a short account of the principal animals he had no- 

 ticed in the Jardin d'Acclimatation and Jardin des Plantes at Paris during a 

 recent visit. — Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks upon the skin of 

 a Zebra from Nyasaland , obtained by Mr. R. Crawshay , and a remarkably 

 fine pair of horns of a male Livingstone Eland [Oreas canna Livingstonei) , 

 which Mr. H. H, Johnston, C.B. , F.Z.S. , had ofi"ered for the Society's ac- 

 ceptance. The animal had been shot by one of Mr. Johnston's hunters in 

 1893 between Zomba and Lake Chilwa. — Col. L. H. Irby, F.Z.S., ex- 

 hibited and made remarks on two British - killed specimens of the Greater 

 Bullfinch [Pyrrhula major). — Mr. W. T. Blanford, F.R.S. , exhibited 

 and made remarks on skins of Capra sibtrica and of Ovis ammon killed by 

 Major Cumberland in the Altai Mountains. — A communication was read 

 from Mr. Swale Vincent, containing contributions to the comparative ana- 

 tomy and histology of the supra-renal capsules. In the present paper Mr. 

 Vincent described the naked -eye and microscopical anatomy of the supra- 

 renal bodies in the difi'erent orders of Fishes. He was inclined to the view 

 that supra-renal bodies are present in all the Elasmobranchii, Holocephali, 

 Ganoidei, and Teleostei, and probably also in the Dipnoi. The supra-renal 

 bodies of fishes were in their essence »secreting glands«, as the mammalian 

 organ was now supposed to be. There was no relation whatever, in Mr. 

 Vincent's opinion, between the supra-renals and the lymphatic head-kidney. 

 In the great majority, at any rate, of Teleosteans they were both present in 

 a well- developed condition. — Mr. Gerard W. Butler, F.Z.S., read a 

 paper on the complete or partial suppression of the right lung in the Am- 

 phisbaenidae , and of the left lung in Snakes and snake-like Lizards and 

 Amphibians. The author gave particulars as to the relative development of 

 the right and left lungs in a large number of Amphisbaenidae and other 

 snake-like Lizards and Snakes and limbless Amphibians, which appeared to 



