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the (Sliou {Cervus affinis), and, if so, to be the first picture of that 

 Deer which had been submitted to the Society since Brian 

 Hodgson's time. 



Mr. R. Lydekkbr described the skull- characters of three local 

 forms of the Southern Sea-Elephant (Macrcyi-hinus leoninus). Of 

 these the Falkland race, which might be inseparable from the 

 Juan Fernandez M. I. ti/picus, had been named M, I. falclaiididbs^ 

 and is characterised by the length and flatness of the palate. In 

 the Crozet race, for which the name M. I. crosetensis was sug- 

 gested, on the other hand, the palate is sharp, wide, and concave. 

 The Macquarie race, proposed to be called M. L macquariensis, is 

 somewhat intermediate in skull-characters between the other two. 



Mr. S,. Lydekker also directed attention to the skin and skull 

 of a Black .Bear obtained by Captain Malcolm McNeil in Eastern 

 Tibet. The skull indicated a race of the Himalayan Black Bear 

 characterised by the small size of the cheek-teeth ; and for this 

 race the name Ursits torquatios macneiU was proposed. 



Mr. R. H. BuRNE, M.A., F.Z.S., read a paper on "The 

 Anatomy of the Olfactory Organ of Teleostean Fishes," in which 

 the chief structural variations were described in some fifty 

 genera, mo.stly of common British species, illustrating the 

 anatomical facts he presented by a series of coloured diagrams. 



Dr. J. G, DE Man presented a paper, communicated by Mr. R„ 

 I. PococK, F.Z.S., entitled " Description of a New Species of the 

 Decapod Crustacean Genus Alpheus Fabr. from the Bay of 

 Batavia." 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business (closing 

 the Session 1908-09) will be held on Tuesday, the 15th June, 

 1909, at half-past Eight o'clock p.m., when the following com- 

 munications will be made : — 



Demonstration, v/ith lantern-slides, of a Theory of Atoll 

 Formation, by Dr. F. Wood Jones, F.Z.S. 



1. F. E. Bbddard, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S.— On some Points in 

 the Structure of the Lesser Anteater {Twrnandua tetradactyla) , 

 with a note on the Cerebral Arteries of Myrmecopliaga. 



2. Dr. W. T. Calman, F.Z.S. — On Decapod Crustacea from 

 Christmas Island, collected by Dr. C. W". Andrews, F.R.S., F.Z.S. 



