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localities in which the true Lemur mongoz L. occurred were the neighbour- 

 hood of the Bembatoka Bay (N.W. coast of Madagascar) and the two islands 

 Anjuan and Mobilia of the Comoro Group. The earliest available name for 

 the usually so-called Lemur mongoz — a very variable species, spread over a 

 great part of Madagascar — seemed to be Lemur fusciis E. Geoffr. The two 

 species, as indeed were all the species of the genus, were easily distin- 

 guishable by the characters of their skulls. — Dr. Forsyth Major also showed 

 that Lemur rubriventer I. Geoffr. (of which Prosmiia rußpes Gray was a 

 synonym) was not, as had been supposed, the female form of L. nigerrimus 

 Sci., but a very well-marked species. A peculiar feature of the skull was 

 a huge pneumatic cavity in the palatal, which invaded the whole bottom 

 of the orbit. — A communication was read from Mr. P. Cameron, F.E.S., 

 containing an account of the Hymenoptera collected in New Britain by 

 Dr. Arthur Willey, F.Z.S. Owing to the fact of the locality having been 

 but little explored previously, most of the specimens represented in the 

 collection belonged to new species. — Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S. , de- 

 scribed four new species of Freshwater Fishes discovered by Mr. F. W. Sty an, 

 F.Z.S. , atNingpo, China, under the names Crossochilus Sfgani, Gobio nummi/er, 

 Opsariichthys acanthogenys, and Homalosoma sienosoma. — Mr. F. E.Beddard, 

 F.R.S. , read a note upon Garnett's Galago [Galago Garnetti], in which he 

 pointed out that a shiny structure, nearly similar to that previously de- 

 scribed on the wrist of Hapalemur griseus, was also present on the hind foot of 

 this animal. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



III. Personal -Notizen. 



Necrolog. 



Am 16. Januar starb in Los Angeles, Californien, Captain John Clifford 

 Brown. Er war am 28. März 1872 in Portland, Maine, geboren, studierte 

 am Technologischen Institut in Boston und trat als Ingenieur in das Heer 

 ein, in welcher Stellung er wegen seines Muthes und seiner Umsicht hohe 

 Anerkennung fand. Er erkrankte auf den Philippinen an Dysenterie. Die 

 Zeitschrift J)The Auk« enthält eine Anzahl werthvoller ornithologischer 

 Aufsätze von ihm. 



Am 2. März starb in Ottawa, Canada, George Mercer Dawson, der 

 ausgezeichnete Geolog und Paläontolog. Er war am 1. August 1849 in 

 Picton, Nova Scotia, als Sohn von Sir John Will. Dawson geboren, stu- 

 dierte in Montreal und an der Sf^hool of Mines in London; wurde 1875 der 

 Geological Survey of Canada zugetheilt und 1895 zu ihrem Director erwählt. 

 Durch den Namen der Dawson-City ist ihm bereits in seinem Vaterlande 

 ein bleibendes Denkmal gesetzt. 



Am 8. April starb in Turin Giulio Bizz ozerò, Professor der Physio- 

 logie und Vorsitzender der mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der 

 Akademie der Wissenschaften in Turin. 



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