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pigment, the " Turacin" originally described by Professor Church, 

 and the green colour of the head and neck, unlike that in most 

 species of birds with green feathers, was due also to a green 

 pigment. 



Professor J. P. Hill, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited an example of 

 an Earwig (Forficula atcricularia) showing a gynandromorphic 

 condition, and explained its structure by means of lantern-slides. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodavard, F.R.S., Vice-President, exhibited 

 enlarged models, made by Mr. Frank O. Barlow, of the first 

 loAver molar tooth of a lai'ge Chimpanzee, Melanesian Man, and 

 Piltdown Man {Eoanthropiis datosoni). He maintained that the 

 latter tooth was of the megadont human type. 



Mr. D. M. S. Watson, F.Z.S., exhibited and explained by 

 diagrams, models of the teeth of fossil horses. 



Professor H. Maxwell Lefhoy, M.A., F.Z.S., described the 

 Silkworms and Silk industry of India, illustrating his account 

 with lantern-slides and specimens of the Silk Moths, Cocoons, 

 and Silk. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will be 

 held on Tuesday, May 15th, 1917, at 5.30 p.m., when the following 

 communications will be made : — 



The Secretary, Dr. Chalme rs Mitchell, F.R.S. 



Demonstration of the Behaviour of Living Birds and 

 Mammals in the presence of Snakes. 



Mr. D. Seth Smith, F.Z.S. 



Lantern Exhibition of Birds now or recently living in the 

 Society's Collection. 



