354 _ THE ZOOLOGIST. 
(Drap.), Limax levis (Mill.), Hyalinia fulva (Miull.), H. nitida (Miill.), 
Physa hypnorum (Linn.), and Carychium minimum (Mill.). In my note 
on “ Shells round London” (p. 270), Arion ater var. brunnea (Lehm.) should 
have been Arion ater var. brunnea (Roebuck).—JoszeH W. WILLIAMS 
(Mitton, Stourport). 

SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
ZoouocicaL Society ofr Lonpon. 
June 18, 1889.—Prof. FLower, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the 
chair. 
The Secretary exhibited (on behalf of Mr. J. F. Green) a very fine 
example of the Common Eel, obtained from a pond in Kent, and measuring 
upwards of four feet in length. 
Mr. B. B. Woodward exhibited and made remarks on a drawing 
representing a living example of rope kaffra, a carnivorous snail from 
the Cape Colony. Mr. Woodward also exhibited an example of a fossil shell 
from the Eocene of the Paris Basin (Neritina schmideliana), and a section 
of it showing the peculiar mode of its growth. 
Mr. Eadward Muybridge, of the University, Pennsylvania, exhibited a 
series of projections by the oxyhydrogen light, illustrative of the consecutive 
phases of movements by various quadrupeds while walking, trotting, 
galloping, &c., and of birds while flying. 
A communication was read from Professor Giglioli, containing the 
description of a new genus and species of Pelagic Ganoid fish from the 
Mediterranean, proposed to be called Hretmophorus kleinbergt. 
Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen read the first of a proposed series of 
papers descriptive of the land-shells collected in Borneo by Mr. A. Everett, 
with the descriptions of new species. The present paper treated of the 
Cyclostomacea. 
Capt. G. E. Shelley read a list of birds collected by Mr. H. G. V. Hunter 
in Masai-land during the months of June, July, and August, 1888. The 
collection (which Mr. Hunter had presented to the British Museum) con- 
sisted of examples of ninety-four species, seven of which were described by 
the author as new to science. 
Mr. P. L. Sclater gave a further description of Hunter’s Antelope, 
Damalis hunteri, from specimens obtained by Mr. H. C. V. Hunter on the 
river Tana, Eastern Africa. 
Mr. F. E. Beddard read a paper on the freshwater and terrestrial 
Annelids of New Zealand, with preliminary descriptions of new species. 
A communication was read from Mr. H. W. Bates, containing descrip- 
tions of some new genera and species of Coleopterous insects collected by 
