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20th March, 1894. — The Secretary exhibited and made remarks on 

 a photograph of a young male Indian Bison [Bos gaurus) , proposed to be sent 

 home as a present to the Society's Menagerie by Major G. S. Roden. — 

 Mr. F. G. Parsons, F.Z.S., read a paper on the myology of the Hystrico- 

 morphine and Sciuromorphine Rodents , and stated that it was based on the 

 dissection of the muscles of examples of twenty-one species of Rodents, be- 

 longing to many families of the Hystricomorpha and Sciuromorpha, made at 

 the Society's Gardens. The results of these dissections had been compared 

 with the writings of other observers, and arranged, firstly under the heads of 

 the different muscles, and secondly under those of the different families. The 

 arrangement of the muscles coincided in a marked manner with the usual 

 classification of the order, and seemed to depend much more upon the affi- 

 nities of the animals than upon their habits and mode of life. The muscles 

 which seemed most characteristic of the two principal sections were the 

 masseter, the long flexors of the foot, the sterno-scapular, and the digastric. 

 Three genera of the Dipodidae had been examined , and were found to re- 

 semble the Hystricomorpha in many respects , while in others they appro- 

 ached the Sciuromorphine type. — A communication was read from Babu 

 Ram Bramha Sânyâl, C.M.Z.S., containing remarks on a rare carnivorous 

 mammal of Borneo [Cynogale Bennetti) , based on a specimen living in the 

 Zoological Gardens of Calcutta. — A communication was read from Dr. R. 

 W. Shufeldt, C.M.Z.S., containing an account of the osteology of certain 

 Cranes, Rails, and their allies, with remarks upon their affinities. — A com- 

 munication was read from Mr. O. V. Aplin, containing field-notes on the 

 Mammals of Uruguay, made during his recent expedition to that country. — 

 P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



III. Personal -Notizen. 



Necrolog. 



Am 23. März starb in Beckenham, Kent, Mr. John Jenner Weir, in 

 seinem 72. Jahre, ein ausgezeichneter Beobachter im Gebiete der Entomo- 

 logie, namentlich Lepidopterologie , und Ornithologie. 



Am 2. April starb in Zürich Dr. Karl Alfred Fiedler in seinem 

 31. Jahre, welcher sich durch tüchtige Arbeiten verdiente Anerkennung er- 

 worben hatte. 



Bemerkung. 

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 und Inhalt zum XVI. Jahrgang soeben erschienen und an alle Abonnenten 

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