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Whales. These were of a less technical character, but in no 

 case was the attendance so good as was anticipated. 



Some of the Scientific Meetings were of general interest. On 

 November 3, 1891, there was exhibited, on behalf of Professor 

 Stirling of Adelaide, a drawing of the newly discovered mar- 

 supial mole (Notoryctes typhlojps), which was presented to the 

 Society, and is now hung in the library ; and on January 5, 

 1892, the Professor himself described some skins which were 

 laid on the table. On May 6, 1893, the Secretary exhibited 

 on behalf of Mr. Kowland Ward a skin of Grevy's zebra, shot 

 by Colonel Paget — probably the first received from Somaliland 

 since the species was described by Milne Edwards in 1882. 

 On June 16, 1896, some clever drawings by Miss Edith Durham 

 on the mode of feeding of the egg-eating snake (Dasypeltis 

 scahra) were shown, and on behalf of the artist Dr. John 

 Anderson read some interesting notes which she had made. 

 At the first meeting (January 17) in 1897 the Secretary 

 exhibited enlarged photographs of the same snake swallowing 

 an egg, and the cerastes viper, which had been fitted with 

 false horns. Two spines, probably from a hedgehog, had been 

 inserted on the top of the head behind the eyes ; one of these 

 had penetrated the mouth, and no doubt caused the death of 

 the reptile, from which the poison fangs had been removed. 

 He also exhibited a photograph of a young great ant-eater, 

 two days old, born in the Stuttgart Zoological Garden, the first 

 case of the kind on record. 



The true story of the remains of an extinct giant ground 

 sloth in Patagonia was told by Dr. Moreno and Dr. A. Smith 

 Woodward on February 21, 1899, and a piece of the skin was 

 exhibited. On January 23 in the following year the last-named 

 author described other remains of the same animal, and bones of 

 others associated with it, obtained by Dr. Rudolph Hauthal, 

 geologist of the La Plata Museum. Ameghino's name, Neomy- 

 lodon, had been shown by Dr. Roth to be a synonym of Gry- 

 potheriuTYi, under which generic name this extinct giant ground 

 sloth is properly described. Dr. Moreno kindly presented a fine 

 collection of these remains to the British Museum (Natural 

 History). At the meeting on November 29, a letter from Sir 

 Harry Johnston to the Secretary was read, and in this " a very 



