MR. C. TATE REGAN ON A RARE FISH. 539 



EXHIBITIONS AND NOTICES. 



May 23rd, 1916. 



Dr. Henry Woodward, F.E,.S., Vice-Pi-esident, 

 in the Cliair. 



Mr. E. G. BouLENGER, F.Z.S., Curator of Reptile.s, exhibited 

 living sjjecimens of the African Lungtish (Protojyierus aimectens), 

 pi-esented to the Society by Capt. C. W. Woodward. 



The Rev. H. N. Hutchinson, M.A., F.Z.S., exhibited the 

 plaster cast of a model, four feet long, which he had constructed, 

 of the Dinosaur, Diplodocus carnegiei. 



Tlie object in making the model was to express in a solid form 

 his views on the reconstruction and articulation of the skeleton of 

 Dijjlodocus, with special reference to the plaster-cast of a recon- 

 structed skeleton now in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), and 

 presented by Mr. Andrew Cai-negie in 1905. 



The late Dr. J. B. Hatcher, Dr. W. J. Holland, and others who 

 have published papers on Diqylodocus appear to be so anxious to 

 make this extinct reptile appear very tall and impressive, that 

 they have been so bold as to place the limbs in an upiight 

 position, as if the creature were an elephant. On the other hand, 

 many naturalists, recognising the Sauropoda to be related to the 

 Crocodilia, are persuaded that the limbs should be placed at an 

 angle to the body somewhat as in the Lacertilia, a view which 

 the speaker has expressed on the above model. He has tried to 

 show that the articulations of the femur and the humerus are 

 mechanically impossible. The broad spatulate end of the latter 

 he thinks should not be put at right angles to the plane of the 

 scapula and glenoid cavity, but must be turned round 90 degrees 

 so as to come properly into line with the large surfaces of the 

 scapula and coracoid. 



A rare Fish. 



Mr. 0. Tate Regan, M.A., F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of a 

 rare fish, Centrolophus hritannicus Giinth. This species was 

 described from a fish about 500 mm. long, which was washed 

 ashore near Folperro in February 1859 (Giinth. Oat. Fish. ii. 

 p. 402, 1860). No other specimen was recorded until one of 

 nearly the same size as the type was taken near Ooruiia in 

 December 1904 (Oligny, Ann. Sfcit. Aquic. Boulogne, n.s, i. 1905, 

 p. 75). A third example, of the same size as the others, was 

 taken from the water in a dying condition, after a storm, at 

 Oapbreton, in March 1908 (Pellegrin, Bull. Soc. Zool. xxxvii. 

 1912, p. 20). The fish exhibited was the fourth known example 

 of this species. It was landed in South Wales from the trawler 



