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June 3rd, 1902. — Mr. William Sclater, F.Z.S., made some remarks 

 on the present condition and future prospects of the Zoological Museums of 

 South Africa, altogether eight in number, most of which he had recently 

 visited. — Mr. Lydekker exhibited the mounted head of a male Siberian 

 Wapiti, and made remarks on the various forms of the Wapiti met with in 

 Northern Asia. — Mr. G. A. B oui enger, F.R.S., exhibited a strap made 

 of the skin of the Okapi [Okapia Johnstoni), which had been received in Bel- 

 gium from the Mangbetta country (lat. 30° N., long. 28° E.) in December 

 1899, a year previous to the arrival in this country of the two bandoliers 

 upon which the name ^^Equus Johnstoni" had been founded. — Dr. Forsyth 

 Major, F.Z.S., exhibited a reduced photograph of the skin of a female 

 Okapi {Okapi Johnstoni), recently received by the Congo State Museum at 

 Brussels, together with the skeleton of a male. Dr. Forsyth Major also 

 made some remarks on this material, which had been handed over to him 

 for publication. — Mr. E. J. Bles, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks 

 upon some living Tadpoles of the Cape Clawed Frog [Xenopus laevis). This 

 species had bred in the Society's Gardens, and the event had formed the 

 subject of a paper in the Society's 'Proceedings' by Mr. F. E. Beddard (cf. 

 P.Z.S. 1894, p. 101), but Mr. Bles was able to supply some additional 

 particulars. — Mr. Lydekker described the head and skin of a Wild Sheep 

 from the Thian Shan, recently presented by Mr. St. George Littledale to 

 the British Museum, as belonging to a new subspecies, which he proposed 

 to call Ovis sairensis Littledalei. He also exhibited and described a specimen 

 of the Sheep named by Severtzoff Ovis borealis, which had been brought 

 home by Mr. Talbot Clifton from the Yana Valley. — A communication 

 was read from Dr. R. Broom, C.M.Z.S., containing an account of the 

 differences exhibited in the skulls of Dicynodonts from the Karroo deposits 

 of South Africa. The author was of opinion that these differences, in many 

 cases, were not specific, but were due to sex, and, consequently, that many 

 of the specimens which had received specific rank really belonged to the 

 same form. — Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., read a paper on the Gonad 

 Ducts and Nephridia of the Annelid Worm Eudrilus, in which supplemen- 

 tary facts to those already ascertained by previous authors concerning these 

 organs were adduced. — Dr. C. I. Forsyth Major, F.Z.S., read a paper on 

 the Pigmy Hippopotamus from the Pleistocene of Cyprus, in which he des- 

 cribed the fossil remains of Hippopotamus minutus Blainv., exhibited by the 

 author at the meeting of the Society on April 15th. The characteristic 

 features of this primitive Hippopotamus were pointed out and reasons were 

 given for the assumption that the type specimens of the species, Cuvier's 

 ''''Petit Hippopotame fossile'''' ^ supposed to have been found near Dax in the 

 Landes, had been brought over from Cyprus. — Mr. Hamilton H. Drue e , 

 F.Z.S., contributed a paper containing remarks on several species of Butter- 

 flies of the family Lycaenidae from Australia, especially in reference to those 

 described by Herr Semper, He also read descriptions of several apparently 

 new species of the same family from the Eastern Islands and from Africa. 

 — Mr. R. L Po cock, F.Z.S., read a paper which dealt with the habits of 

 the littoral Spiders belonging to the genus Desis. The seven known species 

 were enumerated, and one of them was described as new, under the name 



