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Nachtrag. Als das Manuscript der vorstehenden Mittheilung 

 bereits abgegangen war, fand Herr Dr. Grub er in einem der Aquarien 

 des Instituts Heliozoen. Seine Versuche, dieselben auf die angegebene 

 Weise zu conserviren. gelangen vortrefflich, womit also die oben aus- 

 gesprochene Erwartung, dass sich das Verfahren wohl auch auf Helio- 

 zoen anwenden lassen würde, erfüllt ist. 

 Freiburg i. Br., am 4. März 18S2. 



2. Zoological Society of London. 



7th March, 1882. — The Secretary exhibited and made remarks on 

 some living examples of Helix haemastoma from Ceylon, which had been for- 

 warded to the Society by Mr, J. Wood-Mason, F.Z.S. — Mr. W. A. Foi- 

 be s read a paper on certain points in the anatomy of the Great Anteater 

 [Myrmecophaga jubata) , as observed in two adult female specimens that had 

 lately died in the Society's Gardens. The arrangement of the ducts of the 

 submaxillary glands and their relations to the stylo-hyoid muscle, the com- 

 position of the anterior cornu of the hyoid bone, the presence of clavicles, 

 and the structure of the brain and of the female reproductive organs were 

 amongst the chief features touched upon. — Capt. G. E. Shelley read an 

 account of the birds collected by Mr. Joseph Thomson while engaged on an 

 exploration of the river Rovuma , East Africa. The collection contained 

 examples of forty-three species of birds, among them being two new species, 

 proposed to be called Merops Dresseri and Erythroeercus 'Thomsoni. — A se- 

 cond paper by Capt. Shelley gave an account of a series of birds recently 

 collected by Sir John Kirk in Eastern Africa. This collection was made 

 chiefly in the neighbourhood of Mambois, on the eastern slopes of the moun- 

 tain-range which separates Ugogo from the Zanzibar province. — 



21st March, 1882. — The Secretary read a report on the additions 

 that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of February, 

 1882, and called special attention to four Warty-faced Honey-eaters [Xantho- 

 myza phrygia] and two Musk-Ducks [Bizmra lobata), purchased February 8th: 

 also to a young Tapir, born in the Gardens February 12th, and thriving well ; 

 and to a female Mule Deer [Cervtis maci-otis) from the Western United States, 

 presented by Dr. J. D. Caton, C.M.Z.S., and received February 15th. — Mr. 

 J.E.Harting, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks on a mummified bird 

 of the genus Sula and some eggs from the guano-deposit of an island ofi" the 

 Pacific coast of South America. — Mr. S dater made some remarks on 

 ,lipotypes' — a new term which he considered convenient in order to de- 

 signate types of life the absence of which are characteristic of a particular 

 district or region. Thus Cervus and Ursus were ,lipotypes' of the Aethiopian 

 Region. — Dr. A. Günther exhibited and made remarks on the skin of a 

 pale variety of the Leopard from the Transvaal. — Dr. Günther also exhibi- 

 ted and remarked upon a specimen of a new Turtle [Geoemyda) from Siam. 

 — Mr. R. Bowdler S h arpe exhibited a specimen of a Goldfinch from 

 Hungary, sent to him by Dr. J. von Madarasz, of the Museum of Buda-Pest, 

 which that gentleman had described as Cardiielis elegans albigularis. Mr. 

 Sharpe observed that a white-throated variety of the Goldfinch was by no 



