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from British Central Africa, presented by Mr. H. H. Johnston, C.B., F.Z.S., 

 and carefully brought home by Mr. Alexander Whyte, F.Z.S., the naturalist 

 on Mr. Johnston's staff, on June 23rd. 3j A young male White-tailed Gnu 

 [Connochaetes gmi), born in the Menagerie on June 23rd, being the j.roduce 

 of the male and one of the females that were purchased of Mr. Reiche, 

 March 7th, 1893. This was the first occasion of this Antelope having bred 

 in the Society's Gardens. 4) A fine female Eland of the striped form [Oreas 

 canna Living stonii) , from the Transvaal, obtained by purchase July 10th, 

 being the first individual of this variety received by the Society. 5) Two 

 Giant Tortoises from the Aldabra Islands {Testudo elephantina) , presented by 

 Rear-Admiral W. R, Kennedy, F.Z.S., July 12th. 6) A young male Plea- 

 sant Antelope [Tragelaphus gratus) , bred in the Zoological Gardens, Ham- 

 burg, received July 27th. — A communication from Mr. F. E. Blaauw, 

 C.M.Z.S. , contained some remarks on the colour of the bill in a living 

 specimen of Cygmis americanus . — A communication was read fromMr. R. 

 Trimen, C.M.Z.S., containing a reply to some remarks of Dr. A. G. Butler 

 on his paper on the Manica Butterflies collected by Mr. Selous. — A com- 

 munication was read from Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, C.M.Z.S., containing a 

 correction to his paper »On the Affinities of the Sieganopodes'.<. , recently 

 published in the Society's »Proceedings«. — Mr. O. Salvin, F.R.S., 

 exhibited a pair of the newly described Butterfly Ornithoptera paradisea, 

 from the Finisterre Mountains, German New Guinea. — Mr. C. Davies 

 Sherborn, F.Z.S., exhibited a copy of, and made remarks on the recently 

 issued reprint of George Ord's «American Zoology«. — Mr. G. A. Boulen- 

 ger, F.R.S., exhibited a Gecko, forwarded to him by Mr. R. T. Lewis, 

 F.R.M.S., which had been captured in winter (July), fully active, on the 

 snow upon the highestportion of the Drakensberg Range, Natal. It belonged 

 to a genus believed until 1888 to be characteristic of the Australian fauna, 

 and differed from its nearet ally, Oedura africana^ in the smaller and convex 

 granules covering the head and in the rostral shield not entering the nostril, 

 Mr. Boulenger proposed for it the name Oedura nivaria. — Mr. Martin 

 Jacoby read descriptions of some new species of the genus Oedionychis and 

 allied genera of Coleoptera. — Mr. W. G. Ride wood read a paper on the 

 hyoid arch of Ceratodus. The author instituted a comparison between the 

 ventral elements of the hyoid arch of Ceratodus and the basi- and hypo-hyal 

 cartilages of the Elasmobranchii. The relations of the hyomandibular carti- 

 lage were dealt with in detail, and attention was called to the wide range of 

 variation which this vestigial cartilage exhibits. Arguments were also ad- 

 duced to show that there is no connection between the reduction of the 

 hyomandibular in the Dipnoi and its adaptation as a secondary Suspensorium 

 in the hyostylic fishes. — Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S. , read a third 

 report on additions to the Batrachian Collection in the Natural History 

 Museum, containing a list of the species, new or previously unrepresented, 

 of which specimens had been added to the collection since 1890, and de- 

 scriptions of some new species. — A communication was read from Mr. 

 R. J. Lechmere Guppy, C.M.Z.S., containing an account of some Fora- 

 minifera from the Microzoic Deposits of Trinidad. — A communication was 

 read from Sir Walter L. Buller, K.C.M.G., C.M.Z.S., containing remarks 

 on a Petrel lately described as new by Capt. Hutton under the name of 

 Oesirelata leucophrys. — P. L. S dater, Secretary. 



