28 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward opened a " Discussion on the Zoological 

 Position and Affinities of Tarsius," and the discussion was con- 

 tinued by Prof. F. Wood Jones, D.Sc, F.Z.S., Prof. J. P. Hill, 

 F.R.S., F.Z.S., and Dr. G. Elliott Smith, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S. 

 Contributions by Mr. R. I. Pocock, the Secretary, and the Chair- 

 man had to be taken as read. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will 

 be held on Tuesday, November 4th, 1919, at 6.30 p.m., when the 

 following communications will be made : — 



E. Heron Allen, F.R.S., F.Z.S. 



Exhibition of Skiagraphs of VermicuUna from examples 

 grown in a hypertonic tank. 



Guy Mars hall, D.Sc, F.Z.S. 



On the Species of Balanimis occurring in Borneo (Coleoptera, 

 Curculioiiidse). 



Miss Joan B. Proctor, F.Z.S. 



On the Variation in the Number of Dorsal Scale-rows in 

 our British Snakes. 



G. A. BouLENGER, F.R.S., F.Z.S. 



On some new Fishes from near the West Coast of Lake 

 Tanganyika. 



The Hon. Paul Methuen, F.Z.S. 



Description of a new Snake from the Transvaal, together 

 with a new Diagnosis and Key of the Genus Xenocalmus, and 

 of some Batrachia from Madagascar. 



The following Papers have been received : — 

 M. Turner, B.Sc. 



On the Nematode Parasites of a Chapman's Zebra. 



