Basal lengtli 325 mm.; last upper molar 42*3 x 17*5; last 

 lower molar 48-2 x 16. 



Hah. Ja River, Cameroons. 



Tyjie. Old female skull. Collected by Mr. G. L. Bates. 



Mr. W. Stores Fox, F.Z.S., read a paper on some bones of the 

 Lynx {Felix lynx) found in a limestone cavern in Cales Dale, 

 Derbyshire. This was only the third record of remains of this 

 species having been met with in the British Islands. 



Mr. J. L. BoNHOTE, ,F.Z.S., communicated a paper dealing with 

 a collection of Mammals recently collected in the Malay Peninsula 

 by Mr. 0. B. Kloss, and presented to the National Museum. 

 The collection contained examples of 17 species, chiefly Rodents, 

 of which two, representing well-known Bornean species, were 

 described as new. There was also a series of Mus jarak, a species 

 hithei'to known from one specimen only and recently described 

 by the author. 



Mr. Charles tS. Tomes, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., read a paper on the 

 minute structuie of the teeth of the Creodonts. The author 

 stated that suggestions which had been made as to a possible 

 relationship between the Creodonts and the Polyprotodont Mar- 

 supials had rendered it interesting to see how far the structure 

 of their teeth either supported or tended to disprove such specu- 

 lations. Marsupial teeth possessed in the structure of their 

 enamel a well-marked peculiarity, namely, the free penetration of 

 the epiblastic enamel by tubes continuous with those of the 

 mesoblastic dentine, and it happened that recent Carnivora, the 

 descendants, moi-e or less direct, of the Creodonts, also presented 

 a disposition of the prisms of their enamel somewhat unusual 

 amongst Mammalia. Teeth of Hyce.nodon, Sinopa, Oxycena, 

 Pachyoina, Borhycena, Didynictis, and Cynodictis had been 

 examined, and in none of them were marsupial characters ob- 

 served ; on the contrary, in most of them characteiistic car- 

 nivorous patterns were found, so that in Oligocene and Eocene 

 times their enamel had already attained to its full specialisations^ 



Mr. F. E. Bbddard, F.R.S., read a paper entitled " Contri- 

 butions to the Anatomy of the Ophidia." 



Dr. Jean Roux, the Curator of the Basle Museum of Natviral 

 History, communicated a paj^er containing a synopsis of the Toads 

 of the genus Nectopliryne. with special remarks on some known 

 species and description of a new species from German East Africa. 



