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cavities apart. The processus ascendentes of the premaxillary are 

 comparatiyely very short, the crested part of the vomero-palatines 

 hardly developed. 

 Fig. 7. Partly dissected skull of 3f. rusconii. The nasals, prefrontals, aud 

 frontals are cut away. A transverse cartilaginous ethmoidal plate 

 separates the cavum cranii from the nasal cavities, which are separated 

 longitudinally by a double ossified septum ; the septum nearly reaches 

 the lamina cribrosa. Here in M. rusconii there is only a small rudi- 

 mentary cartilaginous septal portion grafting itself upon the ethmoidal 

 plate. 



March 5, 1895. 



Sir W. H. Flower, K.C.B., LL.D., F.E.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Assistant Secretary read the following report on the addi- 

 tions to the Society's Menagerie during the month o£ February 

 1895 :— 



The total number o£ registered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the month of February was 36, of which 18 were by 

 presentation, 3 by birth, 7 by purchase, and 8 were received on 

 deposit. The total number of departures during the same period 

 by death and removals was 124. 



Amongst the additions attention may be called to a fine female 

 Giraffe, which was received from South Africa. This is believed 

 to be the first example of the large dark-blotched race ever seen 

 in Europe, the Giraffes previously exhibited having belonged to 

 the smaller and paler form found in Northern Africa. 



The Giraffe, which was purchased of Mr. C. Eeiche for £500, 

 is said to be the survivor of six, captured on the Sabi River, in 

 Portuguese territory, and brought down to Pretoria. The remainder 

 were lost by death and disease. The present animal was conveyed 

 to Delagoa Bay, and shipped to Southampton in the S.S. ' Greek.' 



The Society has also purchased of Mr. Eeiche a pair of Sable 

 Antelopes (Hippotragus niger) and a pair of Brindled Gnus 

 (Connochcetes taurina), all in excellent condition. 



The Assistant Secretary exhibited on behalf of Mr. "W". Halsey, 

 of the Hudson's Bay Company, two Marten's skins which had been 

 received from districts widely apart. The peculiarity in these 

 skins consisted in the fact that one of the fore legs was deficient 

 in both of them. 



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