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In the absence of the Authors, the following communications 

 were taken as read : — Mr. Guy Marshall, D.Sc, F.Z.S., " On 

 the Species of the Balaninus occurring in Borneo (Goleoptera, 

 CurcuUonidce) " ; 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 Xenocalamus, and of some Batrachia from 

 Madagascar. 



Prof. J. P. Hill, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited and described a 

 series of lantern-slides illustrating the placentation of Tarsius. 



Mr. R. I. PococK, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited a series of 

 lantern-slides illustrating some of the external characters of 

 Tarsius. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will 

 be held on Tuesday, November 18th, 1919, at 6.30 p.m., when the 

 following communications will be made : — 



Sir Edmund Giles Loder, Bt., F.Z.S. 



Exhibition of the skull of a Beaver. 

 Major J. Stevenson Hamilton, O.M.Z.S. 



Field-Notes on some Mammals in the Bahr el Gebel, Southern 

 Sudan. 



J. F. Gemmill, M.A., M.D., D.Sc, F.Z.S. 



(1) The Development of the Mesenteries in Urticina crassi- 

 cornis (Actinozoa). 



(2) The Leptomedusan Melicertidium octocostatum. 



M. Turne r, B.Sc. 



On the Nematode Parasites of a Chapman's Zebra. 



Rev. A. H. Cooke, F.Z.S. 



The Radula of the Mitridse. 



