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Professor Wcod-Joxes, F.Z.S., Honorary Acting Prosector, 

 exhibited and made remnrks on specimens from the Prosectorium 

 illustrating the eftects of Rickets. He also exhibited a set of 

 anatomical prepai'ations useful for teaching purjioses, made from 

 material obtained from the Society's Collection. 



Dr. A, J. Murray, F.Z.S., Acting Honorary Pathologist to 

 the Society, gave a Report, illustrated by lantern-slides, of the 

 causes of deaths in the Gardens during the year 1917. 



A vote of thanks was passed to Professor Wood-Jones and 

 Dr. Murray for their very valuable services to the Society. 



Tlie next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will 

 be lield on Tuesday, May 7th, 1918, at 5.30 p.m., when the 

 following communications will be made: — 



E. Heron-Allen, F.L.S., F.R.M.S., F.Z.S. 



Lantern exhibition of the Arenaceous Foraminifera of the 

 Genus Thurammina. 



Dr. Branislav Petronievics. 



Comparison between the Lower Jaws of the Cynodont 

 Reptiles Gomphognathus and Cynognathus. 



Miss Dorothea M. A. Bate. 



On a new Genus of extinct Muscaixline Rodent from the 

 Balearic Islands. (Communicated by Dr. A. Smith Woodward, 

 F.R.S., V.P.Z.S.) 



List of Papers in hand : — 



C. Tate Regan, M.A.. F.Z.S., F.R.S . 



" Freshwater Fish as Food," to be taken at the Meeting on 

 May 28. 



