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June, July, August, September, and October 1900, and called special atten- 

 tion to the following acquisitions: — A young male Rocky Mountain Goat 

 [Haploceros montantes), purchased on June 6th; five Gentoo Penguins (Py- 

 gosceles taeniatus), purchased on June 7th; three "White Ibises [Eudocimus 

 albus), bred in the Menagerie on June 13th; a young female Brindled Gnu 

 [Connochaeies taurina), born in the Gardens on July 14th; four Red-collared 

 Lorikeets [Trichoglossus rubritorques) , deposited on July 27th; a Ludwig's 

 Bustard (Eupodotis Ludwigi), presented by Mr. J. E. Matcham C.M.Z.S. on 

 October 22nd; and a Bouquet's Amazon [Chrysotis Bouqueti), purchased on 

 October 31st. — The Secretary also made remarks on some of the objects 

 noticed in the Zoological Gardens of Hamburg, Berlin, Hanover, and Rotter- 

 dam, which he had visited during the vacation. ■ — Mr. Sclater stated that 

 during a recent short stay at Gibraltar he had visited the haunts of the Bar- 

 bary Ape (Macacus inuus), at the top of the Rock, and had ascertained that 

 the herd of these animals was in a flourishing condition, and had conside- 

 rably increased during the last few years. — An extract was read from a 

 letter from Sir Harry Johnston, K.C.B., F.Z.S., containing indications of a 

 supposed new species of the Horse-family [Equidae] which appeared to inha- 

 bit the Great Congo Forest, near the Semliki River, East Africa. — Mr. G. 

 A. Boulenger, F.R.S., exhibited and made remarks on one of the type 

 specimens of a new species of Protopterus from the Congo, for which he had 

 proposed the name of Protopterus Dolloi. — Dr. W. T. Blanford, F.R.S., 

 exhibited and made remarks upon a very fine pair of horns and some skins 

 of the Central-Asiatic Wapiti, lent to him for examination by Mr. Rowland 

 Ward, F.Z.S. — Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., read a paper on the Osteology 

 of the Pigmy Whale (Neobalaena marginata), based mainly on an examination 

 of one of the specimens of this animal in the British Museum. A detailed 

 description of the skeleton was given, and the features in which it differed 

 from that of other known forms of the Cetaceans were pointed out. — Prof. 

 Howes, on behalf of Prof. Baldwin Spencer, F.R.S., gave a description 

 of Wynyardia bassiana, a fossil Marsupial from the Tertiary Beds of Table 

 Cape, Tasmania. It was remarkable as being the first fossil Marsupial ob- 

 tained from the Tertiaries of Australia, and appeared to be a Polyprotodont, 

 having affinities with the Didelphyid, Dasyurid, and Phalangistid series, 

 which had probably struck off from the rootstock at the period at which the 

 Diprotodonts were in course of evolution. — A communication from Mr. L. 

 A. Borradaile, F.Z.S. , contained an account of a collection of Arthro- 

 stracans and Barnacles from the South Pacific. Eight specie were enume- 

 rated, including four species of Barnacles, of which one, Lithotriga pacifica, 

 was described as new, two species of Isopods, including a new Armadillidium 

 [A. pacificum), an Amphipod, and a Lepiockelia sp. inc. — Mr. Oldfield 

 Thomas read a paper on the Mammals obtained by Dr. Donaldson Smith 

 during his latest expedition from Somaliland by Lake Rudolf to the Upper 

 Nile. Twenty-three species were enumerated, and the following five forms 

 described as new: — Cercopithecus omensis, like C. albigularis but much smal- 

 ler; Colobus ubyssinicus poliurus, differing from the true C. gueza in its grey 

 tail; Macroscelides boranus, coloured like M. rufescens but with the broad- 

 fronted skull of M. Revoili; Madoqua Guentheri Smithii, like the typical M. 

 Guentheri, but considerably larger; and Gazella Granti Brighti, a pale form of 

 Grant's Gazelle, with no dark stripes at any age. — Dr. Smith had also ob- 



