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Nervensystem und WassergefiBe konnte ich bis jetzt bei unserer 
Turbellarie nicht mit Sicherheit nachweisen und eben so bin ich über 
die Zahl der Geschlechtsöffnungen nicht ganz im Klaren. 
Diese und einige andere Beobachtungen wurden von mir ange- 
stellt, indem ich in der K.K. zoologischen Station zu Triest arbeitete, 
und fühle ich mich verpflichtet bei dieser Gelegenheit dem hohen 
österreichischen Ministerium für Cultus und Unterricht, so wie dem 
Director der Station — Herrn Professor Dr. Claus in Wien — für die 
mir gestattete Benutzung eines Arbeitsplatzes und dem Stationsin- 
spector, Herrn Dr. Graeffe, für die liebenswürdige Beschaffung des 
Untersuchungsmaterials meinen innigsten Dank auszusprechen. 
Triest, am 30. October 1884. 
III. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 
1. Zoological Society of London. 
2nd Dec. 1884. — The Secretary read a report on the additions that 
had been made to the Society s Menagerie during the month of Nov. 1884, and 
called attention to a pair of Tasmanian Wolves ( Thylacinus cynocephalus), ob- 
tained by purchase, being the first examples of this animal received since the 
pair presented in 1863. — Colonel Biddulph exhibited a stuffed specimen 
of the Wild Sheep of Cyprus (Ovis ophion), sent for presentation to the British 
Museum by Sir Robert Biddulph, the High Commissioner of Cyprus. Co- 
lonel Biddulph also exhibited three heads of the Wild Sheep of Beluchistan, 
named (Ovis Blanfordi by Mr. Hume, and drew attention to their similarity 
to Ovis cycloceros from the Salt Range, which led him to express doubts as 
to the distinctness of Ovis Blanfordi as a species. — The Secretary called 
the attention of the Meeting to the death, on the 5th July last, of the Grea- 
ter Vasa Parrot (Coracopsis vasa), presented to the Society by the late 
C. Telfair, Esq., in July 1830, which had thus passed 54 years in the So- 
ciety s Gardens, and made some observations on a peculiar habit of this 
species. — À communication was read from the Rev. A. M. Norman and 
the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, containing an account of the first portion of 
the Crustacea Isopoda dredged during the expedition of the ‚Porcupine‘, 
‚Lightning‘, and ‚Valorous‘. The memoir contained descriptions of the 
representatives of the three families Tanaidae, Apseudidae, and Anthuridae 
obtained during the several expeditions. A great number of new forms, 
chiefly from deep water, including several new genera (Sphyraphus, Alsota- 
nais, and Tanaella among the Tanaidae, and Anthelura, Hyssura, Cyathura, 
and Calathura among the Anthuridae), were described. — Mr. G.E.Dob- 
son, F.R.S., exhibited a diagram designed to illustrate the evolution of 
the Mammalia, after Huxley. — Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell read the fifth of 
his series of Studies in Holothuroidea. The present paper gave some further 
information on the charatters of the Cotton-Spinner (Holothuria nigra). — 
Mr. J. Bland Sutton read a paper on the parasphenoid, the vomer, and 
the palato-pterygoid arcade of the vertebrated skeleton. Mr. Sutton came to 
the conclusion that the parasphenoid of Fishes was the homologue of the 
