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Mr. Thomas also exhiloited the skull of a Pygmy Fruit-Bat 

 from Sumatra, upon which he had founded a new genus. He 

 proposed to substitute jEthalops for the preoccupied name 

 ^Ethalocles, which he had inadvertently given to the new genus 

 of Fruit- Bats described in the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History ' for February. 



Mr. J. B. ScRiVENOR, M.A., exhibited, and made remarks upon, 

 a photograph showing the method adopted by Malay natives in 

 breaking in recently captured Elephants. 



Mr. (J. A. Adair Dighton, M.B., F.R.C.S., F.Z.S., gave a 

 resume of his paper on " Coat-colour in Greyhounds." 



Mr. E. G. BouLENGER, F.Z.S., gave an account of his recent 

 visit to Vienna and of the experiments carried on there by 

 Dr. Kammerer and others upon Amphibians and Insects. 



In the absence of the x4-uthor, Professor Watson, F.R.S., F.Z.S., 

 gave an account of a paper by Mr. E. Leonard Gill, M.Sc, 

 entitled " The Permian Fishes of tlie Genus Acentrophorus."' 



The following communications were taken as read : — Charles 

 F. SoNNTAG, M.D., F.Z.S., " On the Vagus and Sympathetic 

 Nerves of the Terrestrial Carnivora " ; Edward Phelps Allis, 

 Jr., F.R.M.S., F.Z.S., " The Postorbital Articulation of the 

 Palato-quadrate with tlie Neurocranium in the Ccelacanthidse " ; 

 George S. Giglioli, M.D., " On the Linguatulid Arachnid, 

 liaillietiella fic7Xocerca (Diesing, 1835), Sambon, 1922"; The late 

 Mrs. Rita Markbreiteh, B.Sc, "Some Microfilaria found in the 

 Blood of Birds dying in the Zoological Gardens, 1920-1922." 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will be 

 held on Tuesday, February 20th, 1923, at 5.30 p.m., when the 

 following Communications will be made : — 



The Secretary. 



Report on the Additions to the Society's Menagerie during 

 the month of January 1923. 



