4122 The Zoologist — August, 1874. 



source of the true medicinal Turkey rhubarb, and pointed out the characters 

 in which it differs from other species of the genus. 



Dr, Hooker made a communication on the subject of some Indian 

 Garcinias. 



Prof. Thiselton Dyer exhibited a young oak-plant with three cotyledons, 

 which had been sent to him by Mr. Cross, of Chester ; also a pitcher-like 

 development of a leaf of the common cabbage, from Harting, Sussex, sent 

 by Mr. H. C. Watson to the Kew Museum. 



Mr. A. W. Bennett exhibited drawings of the style, stigma and pollen- 

 grain of Priuglea autiscorbutica, Hook.f., describing the remarkable manner 

 in which the pollen of Priuglea differs from that of other nearly allied 

 Crucifers, being much smaller and perfectly spherical, instead of elliptical 

 with three furrows. This he considered a striking confirmation of Dr. 

 Hooker's suggestion that we have here a wind-fertilized species of a family 

 ordinarily fertilized by insects, an hypothesis which is again confirmed by 

 the total absence of hairs on the style of Priuglea. 



An extract was read of a letter from Mr. Harry Bolus to Dr. Hooker, 

 dated Graaft Reiuet, April 4th, 1874, in which he comments adversely on 

 some of the reasonings contained in Grisebach's 'Vegetation der Erde' in 

 favour of the theory of "independent centres of creation." Grisebach, 

 relying chiefly on an observation of Burchell's, makes the Orange River 

 the boundary between the Cape and Kalahari provinces, a boundary which 

 Mr. Bolus shows to be untenable, at least in certain portions. Grisebach 

 unites the Kauoo flora with that of the Cape province; while Mr. Bolus 

 doubts whether it does not differ more from this than from the Kalahari. 

 The Roggeveld, and indeed the whole Kauoo, by its predominance of shrubby 

 Compositte, seems to incline more to the desert type of plants than to the 

 richer Cape flora. 



The following papers were then read, viz. : — " On the Resemblances 

 between the Bones of Typical Living Reptiles and the Bones of other 

 Animals," by Mr. Harry G. Seeley ; " On the Auxemmese, a new Tribe of 

 Cordiacese," by Mr. J. Miers; "A Revision of the Suborder Mimosese," by 

 G. Bentham, LL.D. ; " On some Fungi collected by Dr. S. Kurz in Yornah, 

 Pegu," by Mr. F. Currey ; " Notes on the Letters from Danish and Nor- 

 wegian Naturalists contained in the Linnean Correspondence," by Prof. J. 

 C. Schiodte, of Copenhagen. 



Zoological Society of Lokdon. 



June 2, 1874. — Akthur Grote, Esq., F.Z.S., in the chair. 

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

 Society's Menagerie during the month of May, 1874, amongst which were 



