shoulder, just in front of the arms ; an intense black stripe passes 

 from the commissure of the mouth, through the eye to the ear ; the 

 tail is covered with short coarse hair, pure white above, pure black be- 

 low, and pencilled or shaded on each side ; face greyish ash ; whiskers 

 abundant, and of a grey colour : length 5 inches ; tail 2| inches. 



Mr. Ogilby observed, that the above species, and the one described 

 by F. Cuvier, under the name of Graph. Capensis, aj^peared to him 

 to differ in no respect from the genus Myoxus, and that in character- 

 ising the present animal, he merely made use of the name Graphiurus 

 to indicate its relation to that originally described by Cuvier. 



Mr. Ogilby likewise called the attention of the Society to certain 

 peculiarities in the structure of the hand, in a living specimen of a 

 new species of Galago, which he proposes to call Otolicnus Garnettii, 

 after the gentleman to whom he was indebted for the ojjportunity of 

 describing it, and who has already conferred many advantages upon 

 scieoce by the introduction of numerous rare and new animals. The 

 peculiarity of structure to which Mr. Ogilby alluded, consisted in 

 the partially opposable character of the index finger of the fore hands, 

 the fingers on these members being divided into two groups, com- 

 posed of the thumb and index on one side, and the remaining three 

 fingers on the other, as in the Koalas and Pseudocheirs. He re- 

 marked that the anterior index in all the inferior Lemuridm was weak 

 and powerless, and that it had the same tendency to divide with the 

 thumb instead of the other fingers in the rest of the Galagos, as well 

 as in the Nycticebi, Microcehi, Cheirogalei, and Tarsii, whilst in the 

 Potto it was reduced almost to a tubercle. These genera conse- 

 quently formed a little group analogous to the Koalas and Pseudo- 

 cheirs among the Didelphidce, being, exclusive of these animals, the 

 only Cheiropeds in which this character occurs; and Mr. Ogilby re- 

 garded the fact as a strong confirmation of the truth of the relations 

 which he had formerly pointed out as subsisting between these two 

 families. The Otolicnus Garnettii is of a uniform dark brown colour 

 on every part both above and below ; the ears large, black, and 

 rather rounded ; the tail long, cylindrical and woolly ; and the size 

 of the animal about that of a small lemur, or considerably larger than 

 Oto. Senegalensis, 



A communication was then read to the Meeting by Prof. Owen, 

 entitled, " Notes on the Anatomy of the Nubian Giraffe." 



These notes contain the general results of the anatomical exami- 

 nation of three specimens of the Giraffe, which Mr. Owen had been 

 so fortunate as to have the opportunity of dissecting ; one of the 

 three (a male) died in the Society's Menagerie, and the remaining 

 two (male and female) were in the possession of Mr. Cross of the 

 Surrey Zoological Gardens. 



The author agrees with Cuvier in considering that the external cha- 

 racters of the Giraffe clearly indicate its position in the oxAQxRuminan- 

 tia, to be between the genera Cervus and Antilope ; the true bony ma- 

 terial of its horns, which are covered by a periosteum defended by 

 hairyintegument, resembling the growing antlers of the Deer; but the 



