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6th May, 1890. — The Secretary read a report on the additions that 

 had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of April 1890 ; 

 and called special attention to two examples of Simony's Lizard [Lacerta 

 Simonyi) from the rock of Zalmo, Canaries, obtained by Canon Tristram, 

 F.R.S., and presented to the Society by Lord Lilford. — Mr. S dater ex- 

 hibited and made remarks upon the stuffed head of an Antelope, shot by 

 Commander E.. A. J. Montgomerie , R.N., of H.M.S. ,Boadicea', in June 

 1889, near Malimdi, on the East-African Coast, north of Zanzibar. Mr. Scla- 

 ter referred this head to what is commonly called the Korrigum Antelope 

 [Damalis senegalensis). — Prof. Howes made remarks on a dissection of the 

 cephalic skeleton of Hatteria, and pointed out some features of special in- 

 terest exhibited by this specimen. These were the presence of a pro-atlas 

 and the existence of vomerine teeth, as in Palaeohatteria. — Two letters were 

 read from Dr. Emin Pascha, C.M.Z.S., dated Bagamoyo, March 1890, 

 and announcing that he had forwarded certain zoological specimens for the 

 Society's acceptance, — Mr. H. Seebohm, F.Z.S., exhibited and made 

 remarks on a specimen of the Eastern Turtle [Turtur orientalis)^ killed near 

 Scarborough, in Yorkshire. — Prof. F.Jeffrey Bell, F.Z.S., read the 

 first of a series of contributions to our knowledge of the Antipatharian Corals. 

 The present communication contained the description of a particularly fine 

 example of the Black Coral of the Mediterranean, and an account of a very 

 remarkable Antipathid from the neighbourhood of the island of Mauritius. 



— A communication was read from Mr. E. N. Buxton containing notes 

 on the Wild Sheep and Mountain-Antelope of the Algerian Atlas, taken dur- 

 ing a recent excursion into that country. These notes were illustrated by 

 the exhibition of fine mounted specimens of the heads of these animals. — 

 Mr. R. Lydekker, F.Z.S,, read a note on a remarkable specimen of an 

 antler of a large Deer from Asia Minor, which he was inclined to refer to an 

 abnormal form of the Red Deer [Cervus elap/ms). — Mr, F. E. Beddard, 

 F.Z.S., read a paper on the minute structure of the eye in some shallow- 

 water and deep-sea species of the Isopod genus Arcturus. He pointed out 

 that in all the deep-sea forms there was some change in the visual elements 

 which indicated degeneration. — Mr. E. T. Newton, F.Z.S., gave an ac- 

 count of the bones of some small birds obtained by Prof. Nation from beneath 

 the nitrate beds of Peru. These bones seemed to occur in considerable abun- 

 dance, and nearly all appeared to belong to one small species of Petrel, 

 which it was thought most nearly resembled Cymochorea leucorrhoa or C. 

 Markhami, the latter of these being now found living on the coast of Chili. 



— A communication was read from Dr. Mivart, F.R.S., containing notes 

 on some singular Canine dental abnormalities. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



IV. Personal -Notizen. 



Necrolog. 



Am 16. Mai starb in Berlin Dr. Hermann Dewitz, Custos am Zoo- 

 logischen Museum, ein tüchtiger, besonders durch werthvoUe entomologische 

 Arbeiten bekannter Zoolog. 



Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



