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Zoology Organisation. — Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir E. 

 Ray Lankester (Chairman), Professor S. J. Hickson (Secretary), 

 Professors G. C. Bourne, J. Cossar Ewart, M. Hartog, W. A. 

 Herdman, and J. Graham Kerr, Mr. 0. H. Latter, Professor 

 Minchin, Dr. P. C. Mitchell, Professors E. B. Poulton and 

 A. Sedgwick, and Dr. A. E. Shipley. 



The Committee summoned a meeting of zoologists to consider what 

 steps should be taken : — 



1. To maintain a table at the Zoological Station at Naples for inves- 

 tigators of British nationality. 



2. To ensure the continuation of the work that has been done by 

 a Committee of the British Association in the compilation of an ' Index 

 Generum.' 



• By the permission of the Council the meeting was held in the rooms 

 of the Boyal Society in London on March 31. There was a good 

 attendance of representative zoologists. 

 The Committee ask to be reappointed. 



The Mammalian Fauna in the Miocene Deposits of the Bugti Hills, 

 Baluchistan. — Interim Report of the Commdttee, consisting of Pro- 

 fessor G. C. Bourne (Chairman), Mr. C. Forster Cooper (Secre- 

 tary), Drs. A. Smith Woodward, A. E. Shipley, C. W. Andrews 

 and H. F. Gadow, and Professor J. Stanley Gardiner, appointed 

 to enable Mr. C. Forster Cooper to make an examination thereof. 

 (Drawn up by the Secretary.) 



This expedition arrived in Jacobabad in the middle of January 1911, 

 and after obtaining the necessary camels, stores, and servants proceeded 

 into the Bugti territory and arrived in five days at Kumbhi. Here the 

 fossiliferous beds were located and four weeks spent in working out 

 the exposures each side of Kumbhi. The beds were then followed out 

 to the eastward round the Zen Koh range with varying success, the 

 strata in parts being much turned up and unsuitable for the preservation 

 of fossils. 



During the last four weeks' of the expedition an important bone bed 

 was discovered at Churlando of a different character of deposition from 

 the other beds. Owing to the difficult nature of the excavation, the 

 lack of suitable labour, and to the fact that very heavy rains delayed the 

 work for a week, much still remains to be done in this bed, and the 

 interesting specimens obtained warrant its further exploration. 



A considerable collection of mammalian re'mains was obtained from 

 the various localities which is now in process of development and clean- 

 ing in the laboratories of the natural history branch of the British 

 Museum prior to its detailed examination and description. 



The fauna consists largely of Anthracotheres, of which group many 

 species are represented in the collection. Remains of extinct orders of 



