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to obtain further results, and to visit the warm as well as the cold 

 streams. 



Dr. Carpenter made some general remarks on ocean-currents, especially 

 with reference to the zones of temperature in the North and South Atlantic. 

 He stated that it has been ascertained that water of 40° F. comes nearer to 

 the surface in the equatorial regions than in the north and south temperate 

 zones. There are, he believes, zones of all temperatures in all deep seas, 

 such as that of 33° F. observed by Capt. St. John between Socotra and the 

 Seychelles. He hoped that Capt. St. John would in his future expeditions 

 be able to obtain a very valuable series of observations of deep-sea tem- 

 peratures. 



Dr. Allman bore testimony to the great importance of the results obtained 

 by Capt. St. John, and referred to a magnificent collection of Hydroids brought 

 home by him, a description of which Dr. Allman hoped on a future occasion 

 to be able to lay before the Society. The specimens all belonged to types 

 hitherto considered extinct ; and he entered into some description of one of 

 the most remarkable forms. 



2. " Notes on Japanese Brachiopoda." By Mr. Thomas Davidson. Com - 

 municated by Mr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys. 



ZooLOGiCAii Society of London. 



January 6, 1874. — Dr. A. GiJNTHEE, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. 



The Secretary read a Report on the additions that had been made to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of December, 1873, and called special 

 attention to a female onager, or wild ass, presented to the Society by Capt, 

 Henry Lowther Nutt, and a pair of the new Japanese storks [Ciconia Boyc- 

 iana), brought home by Mr. R. Swinhoe, and presented to the Society by 

 Mr. R. H. Boyce. The Secretary also called the attention of the meeting to 

 a pair of the spotted wild cat {Felis torquata of Jerdon), which had been 

 presented to the Society by Capt. J. J. Bradshaw, who had taken them as 

 kittens in the Scinde Valley, Cashmere. 



Dr. A. Leith Adams exhibited and made remarks on the horns of a feral 

 race of Capra Hircus, from the Old Head of Kinsale. The horns were very 

 remarkable for their large size and very close resemblance to those of Capra 

 segagrus. 



Mr. P. L. Sclater read a synopsis on the species of the genus Synallaxis, 

 of the family Deudrocolaptidae. The specimens of this difficult group in 

 nearly all the principal collections of Europe and America had been 

 examined, and the existence of fifty-eight species ascertained, besides three 

 of which the types were not accessible, and which were considered to be 

 doubtful. 



