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2. Zoological Society of London. 



December 18th, 1900. — The Secretary read a report on the addi- 

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

 November 1900. — The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Major A. St. Hill 

 Gibbons, the skull and horns of a White Rhinoceros [Rhinoceros simus?) from 

 the White Nile, and the mounted heads of two species of Topi Antelopes, 

 which had been procured by Major Gibbons during his recent journey through 

 Africa from south to north. Major Gibbons read his field-notes on these 

 Antelopes and on the White Rhinoceros. — The Secretary also exhibited, 

 on behalf of Sir Harry Johnston, K.C.B., some pieces of skin of an ap- 

 parently new species of Zebra which had been ascertained to inhabit the 

 forest on the banks of the Semleki River near the borders of the Uganda 

 Protectorate. — A communication was read from Capt. Stanley S. Flower, 

 F.Z.S., containing an account of the animals he had obtained or observed 

 during Sir William Garstin's expedition to the White Nile. Amongst 

 these were examples of several rare species of Antelopes, such as the White- 

 eared Kob [Cobus lencotis) and Mrs. Gray's Kob [Cobus maria), and numerous 

 specimens of the Shoe-bill or Whale-headed Stork [Balaeniceps rex). — A 

 communication was also read from Mr. W. Malcolm Thomson containing 

 an account of a large Branchiate Polynoid [Lepidonotus giganttus Kirk) from 

 New Zealand. — A communication from Mr. H. M. Kyle (of St. Andrews, 

 N.B.), contained a description of a new genus and species of Flat-fishes from 

 New Zealand, under the name Apsetta Thonipsoni. — Dr. A. G. Butler, 

 F.Z.S., contributed a paper on the Butterflies lately collected, and presented 

 to the British Museum, by Lord Delamere. The specimens had been ob- 

 tained chiefly near Mount Kenya, in British East Africa, and had been re- 

 ferred by the author to seventy-nine species, which were enumerated in the 

 paper. — Prof. D'Arcy W. Thompson, C.B., exhibited and described a 

 large specimen of a Cuttle-fish [Ancistroteuthis robusta Steenstrup) from Una- 

 laska. The generic position of this Cuttle-fish had previously been uncertain, 

 owing to the absence of knowledge of the tentacular club. This was now 

 described for the first time, and confirmed Steenstrup's provisional identi- 

 fication. — Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., described a new species of Earth- 

 worm under the name of Amyntas Alexandri. The specimen had been sent to 

 him from Kew Gardens, whither it had been imported from the neighbour- 

 hood of Calcutta. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



3. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



November 28 th, 1900. 1) and 2) Botanical. — 3) Studies on Australian 

 Mollusca, Partili. By C. Hedley, F.L.S. Several molluscan genera new 

 to Australia — Blauneria^ Stenothyra ^ Leuconopsis , and Iravadia — are here 

 announced, all but the first-named of these being represented by new species. 

 A new genus is erected for the reception of Neritula lucida, Ad. & Angas. 

 New marine species from New South Wales, a new snail from Queensland, 

 and records of new habitats conclude the article. — 4) Note on an Echidna 

 with eight Cervical Vertebrae. By R. Broom, M.D., B.Sc. In a series of 

 skeletons of Echidna tabulated by McKay (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2), ix., 

 1894, p. 265) considerable variation in number is shown in all the groups of 

 vertebrae with the exception of the cervicals. In the case now described, the 



