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Lady Flower was made an Honorary Fellow in February, 

 1901, and in the following year His Highness Sir Prabhu 

 Narani Singh, Bahadur, G.C.I.E., Maharajah of Benares, who had 

 kindly promised to supply the Society with Indian elephants 

 whenever they might be required, was elected an Honorary 

 Member of the Society. 



The Scientific Meeting of May 7 will always be remembered 

 by those who took part in it. Dr. Sclater exhibited a drawing 

 of the Okapi by Sir Harry Johnston, who, in a letter to the 

 Secretary, suggested that this wonderful new mammal was 

 allied to some extinct form of giraffe. Two skulls and a skin 

 sent by him were received at the British Museum on June 

 17, and were exhibited at the Scientific Meeting on the 

 following evening on behalf of Professor E. Ray Lankester, 

 who established the genus Okcqna for the new mammal. That 

 skin, now in the British Museum, was mounted by Mr. Rowland 

 Ward, as was Mr. Rothschild's specimen (Plate 47). 



Africa yielded something else of interest from the Semliki 

 and other Central forests. During Stanley's expedition for 

 the relief of Emin in 1888-90 he heard vague stories of a large 

 pig-like animal, and the natives gave him highly- coloured 

 accounts of its size and ferocity. Similar stories were after- 

 wards brought to Sir Harry Johnston, to Mr. F. J. Jackson, 

 the late Mr. W. D. Doggett, and others. Lieut. R. Meinertz- 

 hagen, of the East African Rifles, heard about this animal, and 

 secured a perfect and an imperfect skull and pieces of skin, 

 which he presented to the Natural History Museum. The 

 skulls were exhibited at the Scientific Meeting of November 15, 

 1904, by Mr. Oldfield Thomas, who described and named the 

 animal Meinertzhagen's forest-pig, in honour of the discoverer. 



Another noteworthy meeting was that of December 13, 1904, 

 at which Hon. Walter Rothschild proposed a revision of the 

 anthropoid apes. The paper was illustrated by a very fine 

 collection of gorillas and chimpanzees, consisting of mounted 

 specimens, skeletons and skulls, together with a number of 

 life-size drawings. In this revision Mr. Rothschild followed 

 Professor Matschie in separating the gibbons from the other 

 anthropoids ; but the most important part consisted of pro- 

 posed changes of nomenclature. 



