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The author also directed special attention to a skull fi'om the 

 Albert ISTyanza disti'ict, for which he had previously suggested 

 the name E. a. alhertensis. Differing in many points from those 

 of other African elephants, this skull showed a remarkable resem- 

 blance to that of the extinct Indian E. planifrons, thus suggesting 

 the descent of the Afi'ican Elephant fi'om that species. 



Mr. H. E. Dresser, F.Z.S., communicated a paper by Mons. S, 

 A. BuTURLiN containing descriptions of three new species and five 

 new subspecies of Siberian Birds. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., read a list of small mammals 

 which had been obtained in the Islands of Saghalien and 

 Hokkaido by Mr. M. P. Anderson, for the Duke of Bedford's 

 exploration of Eastern Asia. Fourteen species were recorded 

 from Saghalien and thirteen from Hokkaido. The faunas of the 

 two islands proved to be very similar to each other, although in 

 some cases subspecific differences between the representative 

 forms in each were perceptible. In one genus only, Micromys, 

 the relationship of Hokkaido seemed to be with the main island 

 of Japan rather than with Saghalien. 



A list of the cold-blooded Vertebrates of Saghalien, by Mr. G. 

 A. BouLENGER, F.R.S., was also read. 



Mr. Henry Scherren, F.Z.S., read some notes on Hybrid 

 Bears, referring to cases that had occurred in the Society's 

 Gardens, the long series bred by Herr Nill in his Zoological 

 Gax-den at Stuttgart (now bi'oken up), and a recent case in 

 the Garden at Halle-an-der-Saale. Reference was also made 

 to cases said to have occurred at Cologne and Hanover, but for 

 these the evidence was not conclusive, 



Mr. F. E. Beddarb, F.E.S., contributed a paper on some new 

 species of Earthworms of the family Eudrilidaj, belonging to 

 the genera Polytoreittus, Neumaniella, and Eminoscolex from 

 Mt. Ruwenzori. 



A communication from Mr. C. J. With contained an account 

 of the South-Amei'ican Pseudo-scorpions of the family Cheliferidje 

 in the collections of the British and Copenhagen Museums. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will 

 be held on Tuesday, the 7th May, 1907, at half-past Eight 

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



1. Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S.— The Duke of Bedford's 



Exploration in Eastern Asia. — V. Second List of Mammals from 

 Korea, 



