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Secretary. It would contain a list of all the specimens of vertebrated ani- 

 mals that had been received by the Society during the past 12 years. This 

 volume was now going through the press, and would, it was hoped, be ready 

 ior issue before the close of the present year. The library containing up- 

 wards of 20 000 volumes had been kept in good working order during the 

 past year , and had been much frequented by working Zoologist., A large 

 number of accessions both by gift and purchase had been received and in- 

 corporated. — The number of visitors to the Gardens in 1895 had been 

 665 326 which was greater than it had been in any year during the past 

 10 years. The corresponding number in 1894 had been 625 538. — The 

 number of animals in the Society's Collection on the 31st December last was 

 2369 of which 768 were Mammals, 1267 Birds and 334 Reptiles. Amongst 

 the additions made during the past year 12 were specially commented upon 

 as of remarkable interest, and in most cases new to the Society's Collection: 

 Amongst these were a male Lion from Somali-land presented by Her Majesty, 

 The Queen, a female South African Giraffe, a pair of Brindled Gnus, a pair 

 of Sable Antelopes, a Brazilian Three-banded Armadillo, a male Panolia 

 Deer from Southern China; an Alexandra Parrakeet from the interior of 

 Australia; a Frilled Lizard from Western Australia, a Martial Hawk Eagle 

 (from British East Africa) and 2 examples of Forster's Lorrikeet. — About 

 23 species of Mammals, 22 of Birds and 1 of Reptiles had bred in the So- 

 ciety's Gardens during the summer of 1895. The Report concluded with a 

 long list of the Donors and their various donations to the Menagerie during 

 the past year. A note of thanks to the Council for their report was then 

 moved by W. Percy Sladen, Esq., seconded by Prof. W. J. R. Weldon, 

 F.R.S., and carried unanimously. — The report having been adopted the 

 Meeting proceeded to elect the new Members of Council and the Officers for 

 the ensuing year. The usual ballot having been taken it was announced 

 that Geni. The Hon. Sir Percy Feilding, K.C.B., Prof. Alfred Newton, 

 F.R.S. , Sir Thomas Paine, E. Lort Phillips, Esq., and The Lord Wal- 

 singham, F.R.S., had been elected into the Council in the place of the 

 retiring Members, and that Sir William H. Flower, K.C.B., F.R.S., had 

 been re-elected President, Charles Drummond, Esq. Treasurer, and Philip 

 Lutley Sclater, Esq. M.A. Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society for the 

 ensuing year. — ■ The Meeting terminated with the usual vote of thanks to 

 the Chairman which was proposed by Sir, Joseph Fayrer, Bt. F.R.S., se- 

 conded by Col. Hill. James, and carried unanimously. — P. L. Sclater, 

 Secretary. 



2. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



March 25th, 1896. — The following papers were read: — 1) A Con- 

 tribution to the Structure and Relations of the Organ of Jacobson in the 

 Horse. By R. Broom, M.D., B.Sc. Owing to the duct of Jacobson' s Organ 

 opening into the nasal cavity in the Horse and not into the mouth by the 

 naso-palatine canal as in the Sheep, Dog, and most higher mammals, Herz- 

 feld regards it as forming a distinct type. A study of the foetal condition 

 shows that the organ is in all details constructed on the normal tj^pe, and 

 that the peculiarity is due to the palatine end of the naso-palatine canal be- 

 coming occluded, necessitating the passing of the secretion of the duct 

 back into the nose by the upper part of the canal. — 2) Descriptions of 



