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Mr. R. I. PococK, F.R.S., F.Z.S., Curator of Mammals, gave 

 an exhibition, illustrated by lantern-slides, to show some points 

 connected with the alisphenoid canal in the Viverridse and 

 Hysenidse, and demonstrated : (1) that the canal is always present 

 in Viverricula, its occasional apparent absence in that animal 

 being due to the closure of its posterior orifice near the foratyien 

 rotundum, which opens into the posterior end of the canal ; 

 (2) that the canal may be complete in Crocuta, as Cuvier stated, 

 or may be closed at its posterior end. 



Dr. T. GooDEY read a paper entitled " Observations on the 

 Cytology of Flagellates and Amoebee obtained from old stored 

 Soil." This paper deals with the cytology and nuclear changes 

 during division of three species of Flagellates and two species of 

 Amoebse obtained from soil stored in bottles at the Rothamsted 

 Laboratory for practically fifty years. One of the Flagellates and 

 the two Amoebse are new to science. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will be 

 held on Tuesday, April 4th, 1916, at half -past Five o'clock p.m., 

 when the following communications will be made : — 



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



Exhibition of a small Intensive Poultry House. 



Prof. J. P. Hill, D.Sc, F.R.S., F.Z.S. 



Exhibition of living Csecilians from Sovith America. 



G. A. BouLENGER, F.R.S., F.Z.S. 



1. On Specimens of the Perciform Fish, Tilapia nilotica, 

 with Increased Number of Anal Spines. 



2. On the Lizards allied to Lacerta mm'alis, with an Account 

 of Lacerta agilis and L. 'parva. 



