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ration to Dr. Bristol and myself, claiming that we have published 

 his discoveries as our own, and without even acknowledging the theft. 

 Here is a bit of that charming modesty wich never fails this author: 

 »Bristol bestätigt die Beobachtungen von Whitman; Whit- 

 man's Beobachtungen aber sind mit den meinigen iden- 

 tisch, also bestätigt meine Angaben auch Bristoltf. 



There is much more of a similar order and odor, but never a 

 Avord of proof! Mr. Apathy would like to have it understood that 

 my contributions on the Hirudmea since 1888, when his star first 

 began to twinkle, have been little more than confirmations of his dis- 

 coveries. My paper on the Metamerism of Clepsine^ he declares to be 

 essentially a repetition of his work, and I am represented as having 

 changed my standpoint to that occupied by Mr. Apathy in 1888, and 

 all that without confessing my indebtednes to him ! In nearly every 

 paragraph recurs the pitiful refrain, »ohne mich zu erwähnen«. 

 Mr. Bristol's results on Nepkelis, says Mr. Apathy, 'agree exactly 

 with mine of 1888', and yet »er erwähnt mich ja mit keinem 

 Wort!« xlU this bitter grief is charged to Whitman's »schlechtem 

 Gedächtnisff , and the only consolation is that both Whitman and 

 Bristol have merely confirmed Mr. Apathy of 1888. 



I have read Mr. Apathy's paper with a great deal of interest, 

 but not with Mr. Apathy's magnifying glasses. I am not aware of 

 any change of standpoint, or of any indebtedness to Mr. Apathy for 

 the observations recorded in my papers. The same can be said of Mr. 

 Bristol's work. Were I disposed to take up this »Jammergeschrei«, I 

 think I could point out a few 'confirmations' not properly credited in 

 that famous work of 1888. 



Perhaps Mr. Apathy will see when he comes to reflect on the 

 matter, that his gross misrepresentations of me and Mr. Bristol are 

 not the most becoming things for a man of science to indulge in. 



II. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



18th April 1899. — The Secretary read a report on the additions that 

 had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March 1S99, 

 and called special attention to a young female example of the Kiang [Equus 

 hemionus) received on deposit on March 11th and subsequently purchased, to 

 a specimen of Pel's Owl [Scotopelia Peli) presented by Lieut. E. V. Turner, 

 R.E., and to an example of the Cape Jumping-Hare (Pec?e/fs co^e;-), presented 

 by Mr. W. Champion of Durban. — Mr. C. W. Andrews, F.Z.S., read a 

 paper on the osteology of one of the great extinct birds of Patagonia, 

 Phororhacos inßatus. He described in detail the structure of the skull and 

 skeleton, and compared them with various recent forms of birds. The evidence 



