488 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
the Secretary. In this the author reviews the labours of his predecessors 
in the same field, with regard to the shell, the anatomy of the adult. and 
the embryology. As regards the perplexing question of affinities, he 
remarks :—‘ Now, although I do not admit the Brachiopoda to be Worms, 
they, as well as the Mollusca and some other groups of Invertebrates, may 
have originally diverged from an ancestral vermiform stem, such as the 
remarkable worm-like mollusk, Neomenia, would denote.’’ He lays stress 
on the Brachiopodous individual being the product of a single ovum, and 
not giving rise to others by gemmation. He considers that the shell, the 
pallial lobes, the intestine, the nerves, and the atrial system afford 
characters amply sufficient to define the class. ‘The greatest depth at 
which a living species has been found alive has been 2990 fathoms. As to 
classification, he groups the recent species in two great divisions, viz.:— 
I. Anthropomata (Owen) = Clistenterata (King); II. Lypomata (Owen) = 
Tretenterata (King). The Anthropomata he divides into three families :— 
(1), Zerebratulacea, with seven subfamilies, thirteen genera and sub- 
genera, seventy species, and twenty-one uncertain species; (2), Thecideide, 
with one genus aud two species; (3), Rhynchonellida, one genus, one sub- 
genus, and eight species. The Lypomata he also divides into three families, 
five genera and subgenera, twenty-three species, and seven uncertain 
species: (1), Craniide, with one genus and four species; (2), Discinida, 
with one genus, one subgenus, and eight species; (3), Lingulida, with one 
genus, one subgenus, and eleven species. He does not accept M. Delong- 
champ’s scheme (1884) of classifying the Terebratulina, bringing forward 
Mr. Dall’s observations on Waldheimia floridana of delicate spicule in the 
floor of the great sinuses as telling evidence against the arrangement. The 
various genera and species are then dealt with, followed by remarks on the 
Terebratulacee, with copious descriptions and observations.—J. Munrix. 
ZooLocicaL Socrmty or Lonpon. 
November 3, 1885.—Prof. W. H. FLowrr, LL.D., V.-P.R.S., President, 
in the chair. 
The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the 
Society's Menagerie during the months of June, July, August, and 
September, 1885, and called attention to certain interesting accessions 
which had been received during that period. Amongst these were specially 
noted a Spurred Chameleon, Chameleon calcarifer, from Aden, presented 
by Major J. W. Yerbury ; and a fine series of Australian Reptiles, received 
in exchange from the Zoological Society of New South Wales. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited the skull of a Tapir received by the Society in 
May, 1878, which was then described as Tapirus roulini, but which had 
since been found, upon anatomical exatniuation, to be merely a dark variety 
of Tapirus americanus. 
