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The Secretary exliibited the skull of a Wild Boar that had 

 lately been dug up during building operations in James Street, 

 Oxford Street, W. 



Mr. Harold Schwann, F.Z.S., read a paper prepared by 

 Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., and himself, on Mammals collected 

 by Mr. C. H. B. Grant in the Zoutpansberg district of the 

 Transvaal, and presented to the National Museum by Mr. C. D. 

 Eudd. 



The collection had been obtained at two localities — Klein 

 Letaba at 1000' altitude and Woodbush at 4500', and so gave a 

 good general idea of the fauna of the region. In all it consisted 

 of about 250 specimens belonging to 51 species and subspecies, of 

 which seA^eral were described as new. In addition, the old genus 

 Macroscelides was broken up into three, the new name Elephan- 

 TULUS being given to the group of which M. rupestris was the 

 type, and Nasilio to that typified by M. hrachyrhynchus. 



Of the species the following was specially notewoi'thy : — 



Helogale brunnula, sp. n. 



Allied to H. parvula, but. with the head paler than the body, 

 a suffusion of buffy in the general colour and with the limbs not 

 darkening terminally. 



Hah. Klein Letaba. 



Type. Male. B.M. 5.12.9.22. Eight specimens examined. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., read a paper entitled " On the 

 Vascular System of Heloderma, with Notes on that of the Monitors 

 and Crocodiles." 



Mr. Beddard also read a paper containing a description of the 

 external characters of an unborn foetus of a Giraffe {Girafa 

 camelopardcdis antiqiborum ^ X G. c. tvardi 2 )• 



Dr. A. Smtth Woodward, F.R.S., communicated a paper by 

 Dr. Robert Broom, C.M.Z.S., on the South African Diapto- 

 sain-ian Reptile Hoiuesia. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business (closing 

 the Session 1905-06) will be held on Tuesday, the 19th June, 

 1906, at half-past Eight o'clock p.m., when the following com- 

 munications will be made : — 



1. Sir Charles Eliot, K.C.M.G.— The Nudibranchs of South 

 India and Ceylon. 



