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The autodermals are prickly tetracts and autogastrals , hexacts simi- 

 larly prickly. 



Tokyo, Febr. 3rd, 1896. 



II. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



April 29, 1896. — The sixty -seventh Anniversary Meeting of this 

 Society was held yesterday at their Offices No. 3. Hanover Square. W. 

 The Chair was taken at 4 pm by the President, Sir William H. Flower, 

 K.C.B., F.R.S., who was supported by Sir Joseph Fayrer, Bt., F.R.S., Dr. 

 Edward Hamilton , The Rt. Hon. George Benman, P.C., Sir Hugh Low, 

 G.C.M.G., Lt. Col. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S., Dr. St. George Mivart, 

 F.R.S., Prof. Howes, Herbert Dru ce, Esq., Joseph Travers Smith, Esq. 

 and other Fellows of the Society. — After the Auditors' Report had been 

 read and other preliminary business had been transacted, the Report of the 

 Council on the proceedings of the Society during the year 1895 was read 

 by Mr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. the Secretary. — It stated that the number of 

 Fellows on the 1st of January 1896 was 3027, showing a net increase of 

 55 Members during the year. The number of new Fellows that joined the 

 Society in 1895 was 197, which was the largest number of elections that 

 had taken place in any year since 1877. — Since the last Anniversary 

 2 Foreign Members and 7 Corresponding Members had been elected to fill 

 vacancies in those respective lists. — The total receipts of the Society for 

 1895 had amounted to ^ 26.958.9.1, shewing an increase of ^ 1851.8.6 

 as compared with the previous year. This increase was attributable to the 

 prevalence of fine weather during the summer and autumn of 1895 and 

 also to the acquisition of a Giraffe and several other specially interesting 

 additions to the Society's Menagerie. — The ordinary expenditure in 1895 

 had amounted to ß 23.460.16.10 being ^ 155.6.9 less than that of the pre- 

 vious year. Besides this a sum of ^ 1649.19.1 had been charged to Extra- 

 ordinary expenditure. Of this sum 38 1149.19.1 had been devoted to the 

 new scheme of drainage for the Society's Gardens, and ^ 500 to the special 

 acquisition of a Girafi'e for the Menagerie. Besides this expenditure the sum 

 of £ 1000 had been devoted to paying off the last remaining portion of the 

 Mortgage debt on the Society's Freehold premises, which were now valued 

 at ^ 25.000 and were absolutely free and unencumbered. — A second sum 

 of ^ 1000 had been transferred to a deposit account. After these payments 

 a balance of ^ 1391.1.2 had been carried forward to the credit of the pre- 

 sent year. The usual Scientific Meetings had been held during the year 1895, 

 and a large number of valuable communications had been received upon every 

 branch of Zoology. These had been publisheed in the annual volume of 

 ))Proceedings(f, which contained 1059 pages illustrated by 56 plates. Besides 

 this parts 10 and 11 forming the conclusion of the 13th volume of the So- 

 ciety's Quarto »Transactions« had been published in 1895. — The 31st Vo- 

 lume of the Zoological Record (containing a summary of the work done by 

 Zoologists all over the World in 1894) edited by Dr. David Sharp, F.R.S., 

 had been published and issued to subscribers in November last. A new edi- 

 tion of the list of animals in the Society's collection of which the last (the 

 8th) was published in 1883, had been prepared under the direction of the 



