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Miss Ruth M. Harrison and Miss Margaret Poole jointly 

 presented two papers, communicated by Prof. G. C. Bourne, 

 D.Sc, F.Z.S., on Madreporaria collected by Jas. J. Simpson, 

 M.A., B.Sc, and R. N. Rudmose-Brown, B.Sc, University of 

 Aberdeen, from the Mergui Archipelago, Lower Burma, and from 

 the Kerimba Archipelago, Portuguese East Africa. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., Prosector to the 

 Society, presented two papers entitled: (a) "Some Notes upon 

 Boa occidentaUs and Boa {Pelophilus) madagascariensis " ; (6) 

 " Notes upon the Anatomy of Monkeys of the Genus Pithecia." 



Mr. G. A. BouLENGER, F.R.S., Y.P.Z.S., read a paper "On the 

 Ophidian Genus Grayia^' in which he contributed to the revision 

 of the genus made necessary by an increased knowledge of African 

 Snakes. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will 

 be held on Tuesday, the 18th January, 1910, at half-past Eight 

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

 made ; — 



1. Dr. H. G. Plimmer, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Pathologist to the Society 



Report on Pathological Observations at the Society's Gardens 

 during 1909. 



2. S. A. Neave, M.A., B.Sc, F.Z.S. 



Zoological Collections from Northern Rhodesia and adjacent 

 Territories : Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. 



3. J. T. Cunningham, M ,A., F.Z.S. 



.On the Marine Fishes and Invertebrates of St. Helena. 



4. W. M. Smallwood. 



Notes on the Hydroids and Nudibranchs of Bermuda. 



5. Dr. W. T. Calman, F.Z.S. 



On new or rare Crustacea of the Order Cumacea from the 

 Collection of the Copenhagen Museum. — Pt. II. The Families 

 Nannastacid^e and Diastylid^. 



