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more particularly with species that had not been carefully studied 

 from the point of view of the convolutions of the intestine, and 

 attention was called to a considerable series of Birds. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., F.Z.S., communicated a paper 

 by Prof. Angel Cabrera, C.M.Z.S., "On the Specimens of Spotted 

 HyjBnas in the British Museum (Nat. Hist,)," in which he de- 

 scribed thi-ee apparently new foi-ms. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will 

 be held on Tuesday, December 13th, 1910, at half-past Eight 

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

 made : — 



1. Zoological yoMEycLATURE. 



Dr. W. E. Hoyle, M.A., F.Z.S., will explain the Report of 

 the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature pre- 

 sented to the Graz Meeting of the International Zoological 

 Congress, 1910, and will refer in particular to the proposals 

 made for the protection of well-known zoological names. 



2. E. S. Goodrich, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S . 



On the Segmentation of the Occipital Region of the Head in 

 the Batrachia Urodela. 



3. Dr. W. N. F. Woodland, F.Z.S. 



On the Structure and Function of the Gas-Glands and Retia 

 Mirabilia associated with the Gas- Bladder of some Teleostean 

 Fishes, with notes on the Teleost Pancreas. 



4. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., F.Z.S. 



The Mammals of the Tenth Edition of Linnseus : an Attempt 

 to fix the Types of the Genera and the exact Bases and Localities 

 of the Species. 



