430 me. J. s. bitdGbtt ott this [May 8, 



I^yasa in December 1898, during the journey from the Cape to 

 Cairo, of which Mr. G-rogan had lately given an account to the 

 Boyal Geographical Society (see ' Geographical Journal,' xvi. 

 p. 164). Mr. G-rogan had been informed of the existence of a 

 herd of four of these animals on the Songwe, and on proceeding to 

 the spot indicated by his informant, had succeeded in shooting the 

 present specimen, which he met with while grazing in a patch of 

 grass near the river. Mr. Grogan had been told that a similar 

 animal had been seen at Fort Johnston at the south end of the 

 Lake, and that a specimen had likewise been met with on the 

 shores of Lake Nyasa about 40 miles from its north end. 

 Altogether Mr. Grogan had heard of eight specimens of this 

 animal. 



Mr. C. Davies Sherborn, F.Z.S., called attention to the progress 

 of his ' Index Animalium,' commenced in 1889, which would contain 

 an alphabetical list of all names used in Zoology from 1758 to 

 1900. The first portion, now approaching completion, was that for 

 the years 1758 to 1800 inclusive. This part would contain about 

 60,000 entries ; the whole of the slips were already in alphabetical 

 order, and had had the duplicate entries eliminated. About six 

 months' more work would be required to check the generic names. 

 Mr. Sherborn, who is the Eecorder under the British Association 

 Committee, stated that he had been able to purchase no less than 

 250 volumes dealing with systematic zoology and dated before 

 1800, copies of which were not previously to be found in England. 

 All of these volumes had now been incorporated in the Libraries 

 of public institutions in this country. Some of these volumes 

 were unique, and most of them of considerable rarity. 



Mr. B. Lydekker called attention to the following misprint in 

 the notice of his exhibition of the head of a Swamp-Deer (P. Z. S. 

 1899, p. 829), where the word ' Thameny ' in the bottom, line 

 should read ' Thameng ' ; also to an error in the letteriug of the 

 plate in his paper on " The Dental Formula of the Marsupial and 

 Placental Carnivora," where in fig. 4, "jjjp. 2 " should be read 

 " mp. 2." 



A paper was read by Mr. J. S. Budgett, F.Z.S., " On some 

 Points in the Anatomy of Polypterus" of which the following is an 

 abstract : — 



Having obtained a large amount of material of both the species of 

 Polypterus found in the Gambia, in the spring of 1899, I thought 

 it advisable to attempt to fill up some gaps in our knowledge of 

 the anatomy of this most interesting of fishes. 



Though much work has been done by many zoologists in this 

 direction, there are many points in which the descriptions already 



