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of the tail. The sound was produced by scraping the point of the sting over 

 these granular areas. — A communication from Dr. R. Broom, "on the 

 Organ of Jacobson in the Elephant-Shrew," was read, in which the author 

 showed that the organ of Jacobson, which in Erinaceus was of the Eutherian 

 type, was in Macroscelides marsupial in all its details, and was most nearly 

 comparable to that of Perameles. Pointing out that in the allied genera 

 Petrodromus and Rhynchocyon marsupial characters had been discovered by 

 Parker in the skull, the author concluded that Macroscelides was "a very near 

 relation of the Marsupials, and had probably little affinity with the more 

 typical Insectivores." Dr. Broom noted that Macroscelides had a discoidal 

 deciduous placenta, and that its young where born in a well-developed con- 

 dition. — A communication from Mr. Frederick Chapman contained an 

 annotated list of the collections of Foraminifera and Ostracoda made by Dr. 

 C. W. Andrews an Cocos Keeling Atoll in 1898. The collection of For- 

 aminifera contained specimens of 76 species, and that of Ostracoda 28, in- 

 cluding two new species, which were described in the paper. — Mr. G. A. 

 Boulenger, F.R.S., described three new species of fishes from the French 

 Congo under the names Allabenchelys longicauda (gen. et sp. nov.), Labeo 

 lukulae (sp. nov.), and Chilochromis Dup otiti [gen. et sp. nov.). 



April I5th, 1902. — The Secretary read a report on the additions that 

 had been made to the Society's Menagerie in March 1902, and called special 

 attention to an example of an apparently new specis of Monkey from 

 Northern Uganda, proposed to be named Cercopithecus otoleucus , presented 

 by Major Delmé-RadclifFe, to a Panda [Aelurus fulgens] from Northern India, 

 obtained by purchase, and to a series of Indian birds, all new to the Collection, 

 presented by Mr. E. W. Harper, F.Z.S., on March 29th. — On behalf of 

 Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, F.Z.S., were exhibited two arms of an injured Starfish 

 of the genus Luidia from the west coast of Ireland, which had undergone 

 repair at their ends. These regenerated parts were unlike the rest of the 

 arm and had a striking, though not exact, resemblance to the free ends of 

 the arms of an Astropecten. — Dr. Forsyth Major exhibited some selected 

 specimens from a collection of fossil bones recently received by the Natural 

 History Museum from Cyprus , where they had been discovered in caves by 

 Miss Dorothy M. A. Bate. The remains proved to be those of a pigmy 

 Hippopotamus, about half the size of Hippopotamus amphibius, and could not 

 be distinguished from Cuvier's "Petit Hippopotamus fossile'''' [H. minutus 

 Blainv.), which was smaller than the so-called '^H. minutus'" from Malta, and 

 otherwise different. The fossils exhibited showed affinities on the one hand 

 with the pigmy Hippopotamus of Western Africa , ^^C/ioeropsis liberiensis^\ 

 on the other with some remains from the Lower Pliocene of Casino (Italy); 

 they were considered by the exhibitor as a further illustration of the assump- 

 tion that many of the Pleistocene Mammals of the Mediterranean Islands 

 were the little-modified survivors of Tertiary forms from the adjoining con- 

 tinents, from which the islands had been severed during the Tertiary period. 

 — Mr. W. P. Py craft, F.Z.S., read the fifth part of his "Contributions to 

 the Osteology of Birds", which dealt with the Falconiformes. The author, in 

 the course of his remarks, pointed out that, although the Falconiformes were 

 generally regarded as a desmognathous group of Birds, they were by no 

 means so uniform as was generally supposed, schizognathism being fairly 

 common. The desmognathy was directly derived from a schizognathous palate 



