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recently made by Professor Herclman near Ceylon, whilst others 

 occurred also in the Red Sea, thus showing a marked similarity 

 in the Cephalopod-fauna of the whole of this region. 



Advantage had been taken by the presence of several specimens 

 of Sepioteuthis loliginiformis to give a full description of that 

 species. 



Some Octopod embryos showed epidermal structures very 

 similar to, if not identical with, those described by Ohu,n as 

 constituting a bristle coat in young Octopods, and an account of 

 these, as full as the material allowed, was given. 



Mr, Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., contributed the fifth of the 

 series of papers on the Mammals collected by Mr. M. P. Anderson 

 during the Duke of Bedford's Exploration of Eastern Asia. The 

 present paper gave an account of a collection from Central Korea, 

 just north and south of Seoul, the capital. 73 specimens were 

 dealt with, belonging to 13 species, of which several were new, 

 additional to those already discovered by Mr, Anderson during 

 a previous visit to the southern part of the peninsula. 



Mr. AuBYN Trevor-Battye, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., read a paper 

 on some new buildings in Continental Zoological Gardens, based 

 upon recent visits to those of Stellingen, Hamburg, Berlin, 

 Dresden, Breslau, Vienna, Budapest, Fi'ankfort-am-Main, Amster- 

 dam, Dusseldorf, Rotterdam, and Antwerp. By the kindness of 

 their Directors he was able to show the plans of the new Rodents' 

 House, Berlin, and of the Monkey House, Departmental, Storage, 

 Isolation, and Infiimary Buildings, Rotterdam. He also showed 

 diagrams of important erections in Breslau, Cologne, and elsewhere. 

 He called attention to the greater use of glass abroad than with 

 us, to the tendency to get rid, as far as possible, of iron bars, to 

 improved methods of heating, lighting, and ventilation, and to 

 the increased recognition of the fact that great wai'mth was 

 usually a mistake (excepting in the case of Reptilia), since many 

 animals from warm countries would thrive out-of-doors in the 

 cold, provided they had plenty of food and means of exercise. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will 

 be held on Tuesday, the 28th May, 1907, at half-past Eight 

 o'clock P.M., when the folloAving communications will be made : — 



1. Dr, G, Elliot Smith. — On the Form of the Brain in the 

 Extinct Lemurs of Madagascar, with some Remarks on the 

 Affinities of the Indrisinfe. (Appendix to Mr. H. F. Standing's 

 paper " On recently Discovered Subfossil Prosimi^e from 

 Madagascar.") 



2, Mrs. O. A. Merritt Hawkes, — On the Abdominnl Viscera 

 and a Vestigial Seventh Branchial Arch in Chlamydoselachu,s, 



