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 4. Zoological Society of London. 



16*'' April, 18S9. — The Secretary exhibited a pair of a fine large 

 Buprestine Beetle of the genus Julodis [Julodis FfincJii), obtained by Mr. B. 

 T. Ffinch near Karachi; and a Mole-cricket [Gri/Uotalpa vulgaris), sent by 

 Mrs. Talbot from Bagdad. — Mr. S dater made some remarks on the ani- 

 mals he had noticed during a recent visit to the Zoological Gardens of Rotter- 

 dam, Amsterdam, and Antwerp. — A communication was read from Mr. A. 

 H. Everett, C.M.Z.S., containing remarks on the zoo-geographical rela- 

 tionships of the Island of Palawan and some adjacent islands. In this paper 

 it was contended that Palawan and the other islands intervening between 

 Borneo and Mindoro form an integral portion of the Bornean group, and do 

 not naturally belong to the Philippine Archipelago , with which they have 

 hitherto been treated. The writer founded his contention upon the grounds 

 (1) that the islands in question are connected with Borneo by a shallow sub- 

 marine bank, while they are separated from the Philippines by a sea of over 

 500 feet depth; and (2) that a comparison of the Bornean and Philippine 

 elements in the fauna of Palawan, so far as it is known, shows a marked 

 preponderance of the former over the latter element; while the Philippine 

 forms are also more largely and more profoundly modified than the Bornean 

 species. This fact indicated that they had been longer isolated, and conse- 

 quently that the fauna of Palawan w^as originally derived from Borneo, and 

 not from the Philippines , though a considerable subsequent invasion of 

 species from the latter group had taken place. — A communication was read 

 from Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.Z.S., containing an account of the mammals 

 of Kina Balu, North Borneo, from the collections made on that mountain by 

 Mr. John Whitehead in 1887 and 1888. The species represented in Mr. 

 Whitehead's collection were 21 in number, of which six had proved to be 

 new to science. — Mr. G. A. Boulenger read the second of his communi- 

 cations on the fishes obtained by Surgeon-Major A. S. G. Jayakar at Mus- 

 cat, on the east coast of Arabia. The two collections recently received from 

 Mr. Jayakar contained examples of SO species not included in Mr. Bou- 

 lenger's former list. — P. L. S dater. Secretary. 



IV. Personal -Notizen. 



Hamburg. Prof. Dr. K. Kracpelin hat am 1. April die Leitung 

 des naturhistorischen Museums in Hamburg übernommen. 



Lincoln, Nebraska. Die Adresse von Dr. J. S. Kingsley ist nicht 

 mehr »Bloomington, Indiana«, sondern »State University, Lincoln, Nebraska«, 



Necrolog. 



Dr. J. G. Brock s. Z. A. No. 305, p. 324) ist am 20. Febr. gestorben. 



Am 3. April starb Dr. Victor Signore t, der bekannte ausgezeichnete 

 Hemipterolog. 



Am 1. Mai starb in Forsteck bei Kiel Herr Dr. Heinrich Adolph 

 Meyer, Mitglied der Commission zur wissenschaftliehen Erforschung der 

 deutschen Meere, mit Prof. K. Möbius Verfasser der Fauna der Kieler Bucht. 



Drnck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



