LIST OF CONTENTS. 

 PART II.— 1897. 



March 2, 1897. 



Page 

 Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier, F.Z.S. Exhibition of a specimen of a Starling (Sturttus mdgaris) 



with elongated mandibles 297 



Mr. Garabier Bolton, F.Z.S. An Account of a Visit to the Bird Islands in Saldanha Bay, 



South Africa 297 



On the Growth of Hair upon the Human Ear, and its Testimony to the Shape, Size, and 



Position of the Ancestral Organ. By H. M. Wallis. (Plates" XIX.-XXH.) 298 



March 16, 1897. 



The Secretary. Report on the Additions to the Society's Menagerie in February 1897, and 



Note on the Irish Otter 311 



Mr. A. Smith Woodward, F.Z.S. An Account of a Visit to South America made in order 



to examine the Fossil Vertebrates of that Country -. 311 



Dr. R. H. Traquair, F.R.S. Exhibition of a specimen of the supposed fossil Lamprey 



(Palaospond^iiis gunni) from the Old Red Sandstone of Caithness 31.3 



1 . Note on the Affinities of Palceospmidi/his gunni, Traq. In reply to Dr. Bashford Dean, 



of New York. By R. H. Traquair, M.D.,LL.D., F.R.S , .S14 



2. On a Collection of Mammals from North and North-west Australia. By R. Collett. 



(Plate XXIII.) 317 



3. On a Collection of Earthworms from South Africa, belonging to the Genus Acanthodrilus. 



By Frank E. Beddakd, M.A. F.R.S., &c 336 



4. On the Distribution of Marine Mammals. By P. L. Sclatee, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., 



Secretary .to the Society. (Plate XXIV.) 349 



5. On the Species of Potamockaerus, the Bush-Pigs of the Ethiopian Region. By Dr. C. I. 



FoKSYTH Major, O.M.Z.S. (Plates XXV. & XXVI.) 359 



April 6, 1897. 



The Secretary. Report on the Additions to the Society's Menagerie in March 1897 ...... 370 



The Secretary. Exhibition, on behalf of Mr. A. J. Lawford Jones, of a cinnamon-coloured 



variety of the Blackbird ( Turdus merula) 370 



1. On the Myology of the Terrestrial Camiyora. — Part I. Muscles of the Head, Neck, and 



Fore-Limb. By B. C. A. "Windlb, M.A., M.D., D.Sc, Professor of Anatomy at Mason 

 College, Birmingham, and F. G. Parsons, F.R.C.S., F.Z.S., F.L.S., Lecturer on Com- 

 parative Anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital 370 



2. Note upon the Minute Structure of the Teeth of Notoryctes. By Charles S. Tomes, M.A., 



F.R.S '... ........ 409 



3. The Blue Bear of Tibet, with Notes on the Members of the Ursus arctiis Group. By B»^~ ' ~ 



Lydekker, F.R.S., F.Z.S. (Plate XXVIL) 412 



4. An Account of the Freshwater Fishes collected in Celebes by Drs. P. & P. Sarasin. By 



G. A. BouLENGEE, F.R.S. (Plate XXVIII.) 426 



