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characters, which appear in typical forms even in early members 

 of a stock, serve for the ordinal and superordinal grouping, 

 adaptive changes being used for groups of lower order and the 

 gradual loss of primitive structures giving horizontal dividing 

 lines. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will be 

 held on Tuesday, April 3rd, 1917, at 5.30 p.m., when the 

 following communications will be made : — 



Alfred Ezra, F.Z.S. 



Lantern exhibition illustrating Big-Game Shooting in India. 



R. H. BuRNE. M A., F Z.S. 



Notes on some of the Viscera of an Okapi, Okapia johnstoni. 



The Publication Committee desire to call the attention of 

 those who propose to ofier Papers to the Society, to the great 

 increase in the cost of paper and printing. This will render it 

 necessary for the present that papers should be condensed, and 

 be limited so far as possible to the description of new results. 



Communications intended for the Scientific Meetings should 

 be addressed to 



P. CHALMERS MITCHELL, 



Zoological Society of Loxdon, 



Regent's Park, London, N.W. 8. 

 March '27th, 1917. 



