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stated that from the mechanical point of view a patagium and a 

 set of flight-feathers were different organs. He pointed out the 

 osteological analogies between Bats and Pterosaurs on the one 

 hand, and between Birds and Dinosaurs on the other. He sug- 

 gested that Bats and Pterosaurs had arisen from leaping, arboreal 

 forms, whilst Birds had come from a terrestrial, cursorial stock. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., read a paper on the Azygos Veins 

 in the Mammalia. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will 

 be held on Tuesday, the 5th March, 1907, at half- past Eight 

 o'clock P.M., when the following communications will be made : — 



1. The Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P., F.Z.S. — Descriptions 

 of some new Species and Subspecies of Antelopes and of a new 

 Sheep. 



2. Miss Dorothea M. A. Bate. — On Elephant Remains from 

 Crete, with Description of a new Species. 



3. Mr. Charles F. Rousselet. — Zoological Results of the Third 

 Tanganyika Expedition, conducted by Dr. W. A. Cunnington, 

 1904-05. Report on the Polyzoa. 



4. Dr. W. A. Cunnington. — Zoological Results of the Third 

 Tanganyika Expedition, conducted by Dr. W. A. Cunnington, 

 1894-05. Report on the Brachyurous Crustacea. 



The following Paper-s have been received : — 



1. Mr. C. J. With. — An Account of the South American Cheli- 

 ferinoi in the Collections of the British and Copenhagen Museums. 



2. Dr. R. Broom, C.M.Z.S.— On the Dental Succession in the 

 Cape Golden Moles. 



3. Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S.— On Two new Species of the 

 African Genus Mia'ochcetus belonging to the Collection of Oligo- 

 chseta in the Museum of Christiania. 



4. Mr, T. A. Coward, F.Z.S.— On the Winter Habits of the 

 Greater Hoi'seshoe and other Cave-haunting Bats. 



Communications intended for the Scientific Meetings of the 

 Zoological Society of London should be addressed to 



P. CHALMERS MITCHELL, Secretary/. 



3 Hanover Square, London, W. 

 FebruarT/ 26, 1907. 



