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November 18th, 1902. —- The Secretary read a report on the additions 

 to the Society's Menagerie during the month of October 1902, and called 

 special attention to seven living Land-Iguanas [Conolophus subcristatus) from 

 the Galapagos, and a Fringed Gecko [Ur opiates fimbriatus) from Madagascar, 

 deposited by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P., F.Z.S. — Dr. Henry 

 Woodward, F.R.S., exhibited- two photographs of the heads of stags of 

 the Red Deer [Cervus elaphus)bred in New Zealand, lent to him for exhibition 

 by Mr. Lewis Karslake. Dr. Woodward read an extract from a letter 

 from Mr. D. Russell, Hon. Sec. to the Otago Acclimatization Society, 

 giving an account of the successfull naturalization of the Red Deer in New 

 Zealand. Two stags and six hinds had been turned out in 1868, and their 

 offspring now numbered between 4000 and 5000 individuals. The carcases 

 of some of these deer weighed from 500 to 600 lbs. — Mr. J. L. Bonhote 

 exhibited some hybrid Ducks which he had bred during the past summer, 

 and pointed out in what manner the crosses partook of their parent forms. 

 Three of the specimens exhibited were crosses between 3 species, viz. the 

 Indian Spotbilled Duck, the Wild Duck, and the Pintail, both the parents 

 being themselves hybrids, thus proving, with regard to the species enumerated, 

 that the hybrids were perfectly fertile interse. — Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., 

 exhibited and made remarks upon a stuffed male and the skull of a female of 

 the East-African representative of the Bongo Antelope, recently described 

 by him as Boocercus euryceros Isaaci which had been obtained by Mr. F. W. 

 Isaac in the Mau Forest and presented by him to the National Collection. 

 — Mr. O. Thomas, F.R.S., exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Lydekker, the 

 mounted skin of an adult male of the Peking Deer [Cervus [Pseudaxis] hortu- 

 lorum), recently presented by the President and the Duchess of Bedford to 

 the British Museum. Mr. Lydekker believed that an adult specimen of 

 this fine stag had not hitherto been figured. The specimen was in full sum- 

 mer dress. — Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., gave an account of exca- 

 vations for the discovery of early Pliocene mammalian remains which he had 

 recently made near Concud, in the province of Teruel, Spain. The bones 

 had proved to be very abundant in a bed of freshwater marl, but they were 

 in a much more fragmentary condition than those found at Pikermi, in 

 Greece. He had discovered evidence of Hipparion, Rhinoceros, Mastodon, 

 and of several small antelopes, and exhibited some jaws of the first of these 

 genera. — Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., exhibited the stuffed skin of an 

 Indian Elephant still-born in the Society's Menagerie in August last, and 

 made some remarks thereon. — A communication was read from Mr. R. 

 Lydekker, F.R.S., containing a description of the Cabul race of the Mark- 

 hor [Capra Falconeri megaceros). — Dr. Forsyth Maj or, F.Z.S. , read a paper 

 on the specimens of the Okapi that had recently arrived in Brussels from 

 the Congo Free State. The author stated that these specimens, whilst pre- 

 senting the same specific characters as the specimens formerly received by 

 the Congo State authorities, showed conclusively that the male was alone 

 provided with horns, and that the mode of their development was the same 

 as in the Giraffe. The Okapi seemed to be a more generalized member of 

 the Giraffidae than the Giraffe, sharing not a few features of alliance with 

 the Upper Miocene Palaeotragus [Samotherium). In several characters it was 

 intermediate between the Giraffe and the fossil forms ; but, apart from these, 

 some features were pointed out in which it appeared to be even more primi- 



