474 PROF. W. H. FLOWER ON THE- [ Noy. 11, 
compromise between the two. From all these circumstances I con- 
clude it to be a hybrid between the Turbot (Rhombus maximus) and 
Brill (R. levis), and as such I submit it to your judgment. 
*« This specimen is a male, aud had the milt well developed; the 
one Mr. Buckland has is a female, and the ova were in a similar 
condition.” 
The following papers were read :— 
1. On the Anatomy of the Proteles, Proteles cristatus (Sparr- 
man). By Witit1am Henry Frower, F.R.S., F.ZS., 
Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy, and Con- 
servator of the Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of 
England. 
(Plate XXXVI.) 
The first published indication of the existence of this very remark- 
able animal is contained in Sparrman’s travels; but as his account 
of it has been overlooked by most subsequent writers, I will quote 
it in full :— 
«An animal of the height of eighteen inches was known to the 
farmers here [Agter Bruntjes Hoogte, up the Klein Visch River] 
by the name of the grey jackal, as it approaches pretty near the 
common jackal in size, as well as in the shape of its head and body ; 
but, to judge from the teeth alone, as far as I can recollect them at 
present, the grey jackal seems rather to bear the characteristic 
marks by which the viverra, or weasel kind, is distinguished in the 
‘System of Nature,’ edit. xi. 
“The hair with which the grey jackal was covered was a mixture 
of light grey and black; so that this creature was of a darkish ash- 
colour all over, excepting towards the tip of the tail, which for the 
length of three inches was quite black ; it was besides pretty bushy, 
and reached down to the animal’s heels. The hairs, indeed, over 
the whole body were pretty long and soft, but on the back they were 
about twice as long as in the other parts, so that they appeared to 
form a brush or comb; for which reason this animal may for the 
present be called the viverra cristata. I say for the present, as 
well on account that the stuffed skin of this creature was stolen out 
of my waggon by some hounds with which we had been out a hunt- 
ing, before I had time to draw up a more accurate description of it, 
as likewise because it is very difficult as yet to define the genera 
belonging to the order of fere. I made a drawing of the grey 
jackal’s liver, and on going to examine it with this view, I found it 
divided in a singular manner. The right lung had four lobes, and 
the left three. The stomach had nothing but ants im it, or, to speak 
more properly, the white termites before mentioned; yet, that it 
may not be supposed from this circumstance that the animal here 
spoken of belongs to the genus of the Myrmecophaga of Linnzus, 
it may be proper to mention here that the character of this genus is 
