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shoulder, just in front of the arms ; an intense black stripe passes 

 from the commissure of the mouth, through the eye to the ear ; the 

 tail is covered with short coarse hair, pure wliite above, pure black be- 

 low, and pencilled or shaded oneach side; face greyish ash; -vphiskers 

 abundant, and of a grey colour : length 5 inches ; tail 2| inches. 



Mr. Ogilby observed, that the above species, and the one described 

 by F. Cuvier, under the name of Graph. Capensis, appeared to him 

 to diiFer in no respect from the genus Myoccus, and that in character- 

 ising the present animal, he merely made use of the name Graphiurus 

 to indicate its relation to that originally described by Cuvier. 



Mr. Ogilby likewise called the attention of the Society to certain 

 peculiarities in the structure of the hand, in a living specimen of a 

 new species of Galago, ■vvhich he proposes to call Otolicnus Garnettii, 

 after the gentleman to -vvhom he was indebted for the opportunity of 

 depcribing it, and -vvho has already conferred many advantages upon 

 science by the introduction of numerous rare and new animals. The 

 peculiarity of structure to vi'hich Mr. Ogilby alluded, consisted in 

 the partially opposable character of the index iinger of the fore hands, 

 the fingers on these members being divided into two groups, com- 

 posed of the thumb and index on one side, and the remaining three 

 fingers on the other, as in the Koalas and Pseudocheirs. He re- 

 marked that the anterior index in all the inferior Lemuridce -vvas weak 

 and powerless, and that it had the šame tendency to divide with the 

 thumb instead of the other fingers in the ręst of the Galagos, as -vvell 

 as in the Nycticebi, Micrncebi, Cheirogalei, and Tarsii; wh)lst in the 

 Potto it was reduced almost to a tubercle. These genera conse- 

 ąuently formed a little group analogous to the Koalas and Pseudo- 

 cheirs among the Didelphidcs, being, exclusive of these animals, the 

 only Cheiropeds in -vvhich this character occurs; and Mr. Ogilby re- 

 garded the fact as a strong confirmation of the truth of the relations 

 which he had formerly pointed out as subsisting between these two 

 families. The Otolicnus Garnettii is of a uniformi dark brown colour 

 on every part both above and below ; the ears large, black, and 

 rather rounded ; the tail long, cylindrical and woolly ; and the size 

 of the animal about that of a small lemur, or considerably larger than 

 Oto. Senegalensis. 



A communication \vas then read to the Meeting by Prof. Ovven, 

 entitled, "Notės on the Anatomy of the Nubian GiraiFe." 



These notes contain the general results of the anatomical exami- 

 nation of three specimens of the GirafFe, \vhich Mr. Owen had been 

 so fortunate as to have the opportunity of dissecting ; one of the 

 three (a malė) died in the Society's Menagerie, and the remaining 

 two (malė and female) were in the possession of Mr. Cross of the 

 Surrey Zoological Gardens. 



The author agrees ■vvith Cuvier in eonsidering that the external cha- 

 racters of the GirafFe cleąrl)^ indicate its position in the ordeTRuminan- 

 tia, to be between the genera Cervus and Antilope; the true bony ma- 

 terial of its homs. •vvhich are covered by a periosteum defended by 

 hairyintegument,resemblingthegrowing antlersoftheDeer; butthe 



