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wirthschaft betreffen. Man darf wohl sagen, daß gerade letzterer Punkt 

 ein sehr dunkler ist. 



Die nöthige und sehr wünschenswerthe Erwerbung wissen- 

 schaftlicher Vorkenntnisse, wie sie die erwähnten Beamtenstellungen 

 erfordern, konnte durch eine faunistische Station sehr erleichtert 

 werden und dies würde nach jeder Richtung hin ein Gewinn für die 

 Praxis sein. Aus diesem Grunde würde auch der Staat, meine ich, 

 ein Interesse daran haben, die Realisirung des hier erörterten Projects 

 zu unterstützen. 



Selbstredend bleibt aber der in Aussicht stehende Zuwachs an 

 allgemein biologischen Erfahrungen (neben der Bereicherung unserer 

 systematischen Kenntnisse) dasjenige Moment, welches an und für sich 

 schon die Gründung einer permanenten Beobachtungsstation recht- 

 fertigt. Die Süßwasser-Fauna darf nicht länger das Aschenbrödel der 

 zoologischen Forschung sein. 



III. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



20*'' December, 1887. — The Secretary read a report on the additions 

 that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of Novem- 

 ber 1887. — Mr. Sclater read aletterfrom Dr. H. Burmeister, F.M.Z.S., 

 containing a description of a supposed new Humming-bird from Tucu- 

 man. Mr. Sclater proposed to call this species, of which the type was in 

 the National Museum of Buenos Ayres, Chœtocercvs Burmeisteri. — The Se- 

 cretary exhibited, on behalf of Major Yerbury, F.Z.S., a pair of horns of 

 the Oorial [Ovis cycloceros) , which formerly belonged to the Royal Artillery 

 Mess at Fort Attock, and were stated to have been originally obtained in the 

 Chitta Pahar Range, a few miles south of Attock. These horns were appa- 

 rently of the form lately described by Mr. A. O. Hume as Ovis Blanfordi. — 

 An extract was read from a letter received from Mr. H. M. Phipson, 

 C.M.Z.S., of the Bombay Natural-History Society, offering some living Sna- 

 kes for the Society's collection. — Mr. F. E. Beddard read a paper on 

 Hooker's Sea-lion, Otaria [Arctocephalus) Hookeri, based upon the specimens 

 of this species recently received by the Society, one of which had lately died. 

 The author called attention to the external features, visceral anatomy, and 

 osteology of this Sea-lion, in comparison with the corresponding characters 

 of other species of the group. — Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.Z.S., read the 

 description of a new genus of Lizards of the family Teiidae, founded on a 

 specimen presented to the British Museum by Mr. H. N. Ridley, who had 

 obtained it in the forest of Iguarasse, Pernambuco. The author proposed to 

 name this Lizard Stenolepis Ridleyi. — A communication from the Rev. H. 

 S. Gorham, entitled a «Revision of the Japanese species oi Endomychidaen, 

 was read. In this paper three new genera and thirteen new species were 

 characterized and described. Additional observations were made upon the 

 species previously known to inhabit Japan. The new species were based on 



