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qu'on peut considérer les deux canaux de l’oeuf du Géophile comme 
remplis de liquide nucléaire, mais je crois qu'il faut leur donner une 
autre signification que celle d’un appareil circulatoire. Pour com- 
prendre leurs usages, il nous faut connaître d’abord quelques autres 
particularités que présentent les oeufs de cet animal. 
(SchluB folgt.) 
III. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 
1. Zoological Society of London. 
20th November, 1883. — The Secretary read a report on the addi- 
tions that had been made to the Society’s Menagerie during the months of 
June, July, August, September, and October 1883, and called attention to 
certain interesting accessions which had been received during that period. 
Amongst these were specially noted a fine young female Orang-outang (S7- 
mia satyrus), presented by J. M. Vermont, Esq., of Penang; a Cape Ant- 
Bear (Orycteropus capensis), purchased; a male and two female Babirussas 
(Babirussa alfurus), from Celebes, presented by Dr. F. H. Bauer, C.M.Z.S.; 
two young Mule Deer (Cariacus macrotis), born in the Gardens; and a young 
female Chimpanzee, purchased October 24th, which seemed referable to the 
species named by M. Du Chaillu 7roglodytes calvus. The report also referred 
to the Society's New Reptile House, and explained the mode in which the 
specimens had been arranged in the New Building. — A letter was read 
from Mr. G.B. Sowerby, jun., in which he proposed to change the name of 
Thracia Jacksonensis, given in his paper »On New Shells«, read in January 
1883, to Thracia Brazieri. — A letter was read from Mr. W.H. Ravenscroft, 
of Columbo, Ceylon, describing the effectual mode in which a female Axis 
Deer in confinement concealed its young one from observation. — The 
Secretary exhibited, on the part of Major C.H.T. Marshall, F.Z.S., a 
specimen of a new Impeyan Pheasant from Chumba, N. W. India, which 
Major Marshall proposed to name Lophophorus chumbanus; and some other 
birds from the same district. — Mr. H. Seebohm, F. Z. S., exhibited 
and made remarks on a new Owl from Japan, which he proposed to call 
Bubo Blackistoni, after Capt. Blakiston, its discoverer. — Mr. H. E. Dresser, 
F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks on some Ringed Pheasants from Corea. 
— Prof. Bell, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks upon some Australian 
Crinoids infested by a large number of Myzostomata. — Prof. Flower 
read a paper on the characters and divisions of the family Delphinidae, in 
which the following generic divisions were admitted and defined: — Mono- 
don, Delphinapterus, Phocaena, Neomeris, Cephalorhynchus, Orca, Orcella, 
Pseudorca, Globicephalus, Grampus, Feresia, Lagenorhynchus, Delphinus, Tur- 
stops, Clymenia, Steno, and Sotalia. Critical remarks were added upon the 
characters and synonymy of the best known species of each. — Prof. Flo- 
wer also gave account of a specimen of Rudolphis Rorqual, Balaenoptera 
borealis Lesson (= Sibbaldius laticeps Gray), lately captured in the River 
Crouch, Essex, being the first well-authenticated example of this species 
