439 



In the solution of 1 : 5000 the tadpole is at first slightly affected. After 

 a few minutes it regains power to move and can live for days swimming 

 about actively in the Chloretone solution. 



Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, June 8th 1900. 



2. Zoological Society of London. 



June I9trij 1900. — The Secretary read a report on the additions that 

 had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of May 1900, and 

 called special attention to a young female Cape Hunting-Dog [Lyaaon pictus), 

 obtained by purchase on May 4th. — The Secretary exhibited a cast of 

 a portion of the jaw of an Ichthyosaurus (taken from a specimen obtained at 

 Flinders's River, Queensland), transmitted to the Society by Mr. J. Lane 

 Huxley, of the Land's Department, Brisbane, Queensland, and read some 

 notes upon it prepared by Mr. C. W. Andrews, F.Z.S. — The attention of 

 the Meeting was called to an article by Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker, F.Z.S., 

 which had lately appeared in the 'Asian', concerning the Gaur [Bos gaums) 

 and the Gayal [Bos frontalis). The author, after lengthened studies, had 

 come to the conclusion that the Gayal was merely a domesticated form of 

 the Gaur. — Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., exhibited and made remarks 

 upon a remarkably large specimen of a Bornean Tortoise, Broohia Baileyi^ 

 which had recently been obtained by Mr. Charles Hose in Lake Majang, 

 Borneo. Its carapace measured 64 centimetres in length. — Dr. Walter Kidd, 

 F.Z.S., read a paper on the significance of the hair-slope in certain Mammals, 

 in which reference was made to previous investigations into the hair-slope 

 on the extensor surface of the human forearm, and its bearing upon Weiss- 

 mann's doctrine of the non-inheritance of acquired characters. Details were 

 given of further observations as to the hair-slope on the nasal and frontal 

 regions of certain Mammals. The ordinary type and the exceptional type of 

 slope were described, and lists of animals conforming to the two types were 

 given. These results were held to be opposed to the doctrines of Weiss- 

 mann, and to be attributable to the habits of the animals in question. — 

 Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., read a paper on the anatomy of Bassaricyon 

 Alleni j based on an examination of a specimen of this Mammal that had 

 recently died in the Society's Gardens. The result arrived at was that this 

 genus was clearly referable to the family Procyonidae, as had been usually 

 supposed, and allied, especially in external form, to Cercoleptes, but disting- 

 uished by well-marked characters. — Mr. W. F. Lanchester, M.A., read 

 the first part of a paper on a collection of Crustaceans made at Singapore 

 and Malacca by himself and Mr. F. P. Bedford, F.Z.S. It contained a list 

 of the Brachyura comprised in the collection, some notes on the nature of 

 the collecting area, and on the habits of certain of the species, together with 

 descriptions of twelve new forms. — A communication was read from 

 Dr. Einar Lönnberg, of Upsala, on the structure and anatomy of the 

 Musk-Ox (Ovibos moschatus). It contained an account of the development 

 of the horns, descriptions of the hoofs and skull, and a comparison between 

 the skull of he Musk-Ox and that of the Takin (Budorcas). — A commu- 

 nication wasread from Mr. A. L. Butler, F.Z.S. , containing the descrip- 

 tion of a supposed new species of Mountain-Antelope from the Malay Penin- 



