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bones and muscles of the mammalian hand and foot, in which he explained his 

 views on the rudiments of the sixth and seventh digits or rays. These rudi- 

 ments, as he showed, are situated both on the inner and the outer borders 

 of the hand and foot; they are present in nearly all the orders of mammals, 

 especially in the lower forms, and are always provided with special muscles. 

 — Dr. G. Herbert Fowler pointed out the characters of a new species of 

 Sea-Pen of the family Veretillidae from a specimen belonging to the Madras 

 Museum, and proposed to call it Cavernularia malabarica. Dr. Fowler like- 

 wise exhibited and made remarks on an example of Lidaria phalloïdes be- 

 longing to the same Museum. — Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., described 

 two new genera comprising three new species of Earthworms from Western 

 Tropical Africa. — A communication was read from Mr. Oldfield Thomas 

 containing an account of a new Antelope from Somaliland, which he pro- 

 posed to call Neotragus nipicola. Capt. H. G. C. Swayne, R.E. , and his 

 brother, Capt. E. Swayne, B.S.C., had discovered this Antelope during their 

 recent explorations in that country , but had not been able to bring back 

 specimens. Two skins and a frontlet, lately received by Capt. H. G. C. 

 Swayne from his native hunters , had enabled Mr. Thomas to establish the 

 species. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



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Necrolog. 



Am 1./2. April starb in Paris Charles Edward Brown-Séquard, der 

 bekannte ausgezeichnete Physiolog. Er war am S.April 1817 in Port-Louis, 

 Mauritius, geboren. 



Am 31. März (?) starb in Paris Georges Pouch et, Professor der ver- 

 gleichenden Anatomie am Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, geboren 1833 in 

 Rouen. 



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