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"The bladder was small and contracted : the uterus measured ^ an 

 inch, its cornua H inch, and the vagina li inch, its internal lining 

 being puckered longitudinally. 



" The lungs consisted of three lobes on the right, and two on the 

 left side : in the Suricate there are four on the right and three on the 

 left. The heart is obtuse at its apex, and of a thick rounded figure, being 

 4ths of an inch from the base to the apex and 14- in breadth across the 

 base. The tongue was 2 inches long, smooth at the sides, but covered 

 in the centre towards the tip with retroverted sharp bristly papilla: : 

 at the base were three isolated /^fl/j«7/« forming a crescent, thus Oo°- 

 The sublingual glandswere of the size of hazel-nuts. The epiglottis was 

 pointed and curled forwards : the number of rings in t)ie trachea was 

 thirty-eight. The thyroid glands were situated on each side of the 

 twelve upper rings of the trachea ; they were of large size, measuring 

 -l-ths of an inch in length. The oesop/taj'MS exhibited longitudinal ruga 

 along its inner surface. 



" In the disproportion between the large and small intestines ; in 

 their small circumference ; in the form of the ceecum ; in the venous 

 ramifications on the surface of the kidneys ; as well as in other mi- 

 nor points ; we cannot fail to observe the close similarity, not alone 

 between the Mangue and the Suricate, but between both these ani- 

 mals and the Viverridce in general." 



A collection was exhibited of skins of Birds, formed by B. H. 

 Hodgson, Esq., Corr. Memb. Z.S., in Nepsd, and presented by him 

 to the Society. These birds were brought under the notice of the 

 Meeting by Mr. Gould, who, at the request of the Chairman, pointed 

 out the most interesting among them, both as regarded the Society's 

 collection, and with reference to their novelty or the peculiarities of 

 their form. As, however, Mr. Hodgson himself purposes to describe 

 at length the characters and habits of the several species in his pro- 

 posed ' Zoologjr of Nepal,' Mr. Gould abstained from entering more 

 particularly into those topics. 



A paper was read " On Clavagella, by W. J. Broderip, Esq." It 

 was accompanied by drawings illustrative of the new species de- 

 scribed in it. 



The author commences by a history of the genus from the time 

 when Lamarck established it for the reception of four fossil species, 

 two of which he had previously referred to his genus Fistulana. A 

 recent species was subsequently described and figured b)^ Mr. G. B. 

 Sowerby,in his 'Genera of Recent and Fossil Shells,' under the name 

 of Clav. aperta ; and a second recent species, Clav. Australis, has 

 since been described and figured by the same conchologist ; M. 

 Audouin has noticed another recent Shell which he refers to this 

 genus ; and some details have been published by M. Rang of an ad- 

 ditional recent species, his Clav. Rapa. The collection of Mr. Cum- 

 ing furnishes another recent species, the anatomy of which formed 

 the subject of a paper read by Mr. Owen at the last Meeting of the 

 Society; there exists yet another in that of Mr. Isaac Lyon Gold- 

 smid ; and another in those of Mr. Cuming and Mr. Miller. 



