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gedrungen sind, betrifft dieser Wunsch. Auch sie wechsehi, sei es den 

 Titel, sei es den Ort ihrer Thätigkeit. Im Auslande wird aber ein der- 

 artiger Wechsel nicht so rasch bekannt, und in der Heimat wird es 

 historisch stets von Interesse sein, wenn bei einem älteren Werke in 

 der Überschrift der damalige Rang und Aufenthaltsort des Verfassers 

 zu erkennen ist. Dr. A. Gruber, 



Prof. d. Zoologie in Freiburg i/li. 



4. Zoological Society of London. 



2P* February, 18Sb. — Mr. A. Thomson exhibited a series of insects 

 reared in the Insect-house in the Society's Gardens during the past year, and 

 read a report on the subject. — Prof. G. B. Howes, F.Z.S., read a note 

 on the azygos veins of the Anurons Amphibia. The author describid an in- 

 dividual specimen of Rana temporar ia in which the azygos vein (prerenal 

 portion of the posterior cardinal) had been retained on one side, its relations 

 differing in important details from that observed by Hochstetter in Bombi- 

 naior. By way of supplementing that author's work, he had examined ex- 

 amples of a few genera not dealt with by Hochstetter. He recorded the pre- 

 sence of these veins in the only specimen of Discoç/lossus dissected, and in 

 one of five individuals of Alytes ohstelricavs — facts which lent additional 

 support to the views of Cope and Boulenger of the lowly affinities of the 

 Discoglossidae. He had failed to detect these vessels in the Aglossa ; while 

 he regarded their total absence in Pelohates and Pelodytes as fresh evidence of 

 the Pelobatoid rather than the Discoglossid affinities of the last-named genus. 



— Mr. A. Smith- Woodward, F.Z.S., read the second part of his palae- 

 ontological contributions to Selachian morphology. The author described 

 appearances of an open lateral line in a Cretaceous genus of Scylliidae, sup- 

 ported by half-rings, as in the Chimaeroids. He further noticed the pelvic 

 cartilage of the Cretaceous Cyclohatis, pointing out and discussing the enor- 

 mous proportions of the iliac process. — Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.Z.S., 

 gave an account of the Mammals obtained by Mr. G. F. Gaumer on Cozumel 

 and Kuatan Islands, Gulf of Honduras. — A second paper by Mr. Thomas 

 contained the description of a new and interesting annectent genus of Muri- 

 dae, based on a specimen which had been in the Paris Museum for some 

 years. This was supplemented with remarks on the relations of the Old- and 

 New-World members of the" family. — Dr. G. H. Fowler exhibited and 

 made some remarks on a new Perniatala from the Bahamas, the most inte- 

 resting feature of which was the presence of immature anthozooids at the dor- 

 sal end of the leaves, devoid of tentacles, but possessing a well-marked 

 siphonoglyphe on the stomatidaeum which disappears with the increasing 

 age of the polyp. The species was proposed to be named Pennatula bellissima. 



— P. L. S dater, Secretary. 



5. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



25''> January, 1888. — 1) On an extinct genus of the Marsupials allied 

 to Hypsiprymnodon. By C. W. De Vis, M.A. A full description is given of 

 the lower jaw of an extinct marsupial found by Mr. R. Frost at King's Creek, 



