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species of the Nubian Giraffe ; Dr. Forsyth-Major, on Remains 

 of the Okapi in the Tervueren Museum; and Dr. A. Smith 

 Woodward, on Fossil Remains from Patagonia, and PHocene 

 Remains from Teruel. 



In 1901 the fifteenth volume of Transactions appeared, 

 containing eight papers, illustrated by fifty-two plates. The 

 most important memoir was that of the Hon. Walter Roth- 

 schild on the Cassowaries, all the known species well illus- 

 trated by coloured life-size plates of the head and wattles. 

 This part cost nearly £900, of which the author contributed 

 £450.^ Next come Dr. Andrews's paper on the Extinct Birds 

 of Patagonia, and that of Mr. Boulenger on the Ichthyology 

 of Lake Tanganyika. The sixteenth volume, published in 1903, 

 contained nine papers and thirty- eight plates. Professor Ray 

 Lankester's monograph on Okapia stands first ; the papers by 

 Howes, on the Development of the Skeleton of the Tuatara ; 

 J. S. Budge tt,t on the Breeding Habits of some West African 

 Fishes, and Mr. Boulenger, on the Ichthyology of Lake 

 Tanganyika, are of some considerable value. 



New arrangements were made with printers, artists, and 

 engravers, and these have effected "a very considerable 

 economy." 



At the beginning of 1903 a professional auditor was ap- 

 pointed. The accounts are now made up on an Income and 

 Expenditure basis, instead of the old system of Receipt and 

 Payments. The Composition account has been worked out by 

 the Auditors on a fifteen-years' basis, only £2 being taken 

 annually for the Income account. This is supplemented by 

 the undrawn balances of Compounders dying in each year. 

 Changes have also been made with regard to the banking 

 account. Formerly definite sums were borrowed at interest, 

 but now an overdraft has been arranged, and only on this is 

 interest charged. 



* The birds had been deposited in the Gardens ; and, important as these were, 

 they form but a very small part of the animals which Mr. Eothschild has from time 

 to time entrusted to the care of the Society. 



t One of the martyrs of science. He died January 19, 1904, the day on which 

 he was to have laid before the Society an account of the material procured in Nigeria 

 in the previous autumn (see note on p. 176). One would like to see some record of 

 Forbes and Budgett in the Meeting Room. 



