LIST OF CONTENTS. 

 PART I.— 1898. 



January 18, 1898. 



Page 

 The Secretary. Report oh the Additions to the Society's Menagerie in December 1897. 



(Platel.) 1 



The Secretary. Exhibition, on behalf of Dr. E. Collett, of a specimen of a supposed hybrid 

 between the Fieldfare {Turdus pilaris) and the Kedwing (7". iliacus) 3 



Mr. W. E. de Winton. Exhibition of a slsin of a Zebra (Eqinis bochmi) from British East 



Africa 3 



]. On the Development of thn Hyobranchial Skeleton of the Midwife-Toad {Alytes ribstetri- 

 ram). By W. G. Ridkwood, D.Sc, F.L.S., Lecturer on Biology at St. Mary's Hospital 

 Medical School, London. (Plate II.) 4 



•■>. On the Cteniform Spiders of Africa, Arabia, and Syria. By Fredk. O. Pickard 



Cambridge, B.A. (Plates IlL & IV.) 13 



.". On some Crustaceans from the South Pacific. — Part I. Sfomafopoda. By Lancelot 

 AiiEXANnKR BouRAnAiLE, M.A., Lecturer in Natural Sciences at Selwyn College, 

 Cambridge. (Plates V. & VL) 32 



I'^ebruary 1, 1898. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas. E.vhibition of, and remarks upon, the skull of a .supposed new sub- 

 species of Giraffe from West Africa, proposed to be named Giraffa camelopardalis 

 peralla 39 



Mr. Sclater. Exhibition of photographs of GirafTes showing the differences in markings 



l>elween tlie two recognized forms : 41 



.Mr. .1. lirahnm Kerr. Notes on the dry-season habits of Lepidosiren, communicated to him 



in a letter by Mr. R. J. Hunt, of Pai-aguay 41 



M r. O. A. Boulenger, F.B.S. Notice of a memoir on the Fishes collected by Dr. J. Bach 



in the Rio Jurua, Brazil 44 



Contents continued on page 3 of Wrapper. 



