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strengtli for so small aii aiiimal. Two small flattcned Cowper's 

 glands, ofa circular figure, open by long ducts iuto this part ofthe 

 urethra; the remainder ofthe canal is narrovv. 



"The/>eMi5 is abruptiy bent backwards, and terminates in a trun- 

 cate extreniity, \vliich I liave observed freąuently hanging down in 

 tbe living animal. The eredores museles are shoit and strong, but 

 quite inadequate to perform the office their name implies. The 

 erection or extension of the penis is performed, as in other retro- 

 mingents, by two museles arising from the sijmphijsis piibis, and in- 

 serted near the glans by a single tendon, which traverses the dorsuin 

 penis. One can hardly conceive hovv even these museles can be 

 adequate to the complete extension of Xht penis, unless assisted by 

 the action which Cuvier attributes to the acceleraions iirincB,y\z. 

 that of expelling the accumulated blood from tl)e bulbous part, and 

 chasing it to the other end of the penis, — an action which one can 

 readily conceive mušt have a considerable influence in the erection, 

 as well asin driving onvvards the fluids accumulated in the bulb. 



"The viscera ofthe chest, the tongue, and the larynx presented 

 nothing remarkable. 



" The chief peculiaritv observed in the muscular system vvas a 

 modification of the digastric musele of the lower jaw, vvhich arose, 

 as in the Armadilloes , from the upper part of the sternum, instead 

 of the occiput or temperai bone ; and was inserted into the whole 

 rainus and angle of the lower jaw ; it vvas of remarkable strength, 

 being as large as the sterno-cleido-mastoideus in man. It is this 

 musele vvhich occasions the peculiar fulness of the neck in the 

 Hyrax" 



The follovi'ing extract from the Report of the Council to the 

 Oeneral Meeting on December 6th, vvas read : 



"In their lašt Annual Report, the Council adverted vvith un- 

 mixed satisfaction to the meetings of the Committee of Science 

 and Correspondence, and to the published Proceedings vvhich have 

 emanated from those meetings. The Council sa\v in them proofs 

 ofthe scientific zeal ofthe Members of the Society, both at home 

 and abroad ; and subseąuent meetings and proceedings hsve con- 

 firmed the impression made by them, that much important informa- 

 tion vvas likely to be afforded to the public by the iiidustry and 

 talent of those Members who have taken a share in producing them, 

 as well as of other Members, not less ąualified to add to the general 

 stock of zoological knovvledge. Avvare from such ample evidence 

 that the Society may, by the exertions of its Members, assume a 

 rank in the scientific vvorld commensurate vvith its resources and 

 their zeal, the Council have under consideration a plan for substi- 

 tuting in lieu of meetings ofa Committee, general meetings of the 

 Society for scientific purposes. Tbey trust to be able to lay before 

 an earlj' meeting the detaiJs of such a plan. With it vvill be con- 

 nected the publication, virith the requisite illustrations, of all the 

 more important papers vvhich may be communicated to the scientific 

 meetings," 



