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SO fatal to the hypothesis here dealt with as might at fii-st ajjpear. 

 In some mammals, for instance in Galictis barbara, the broad 

 ligament continuous with the suspensory ligaments of the gonads 

 and their ducts is continued forwards very nearly as far as the 

 diaphragm. Furthermore, in some birds the oviduct is in actual 

 contact with the oblique septum, which is a structure also to be 

 compai'ed with these septa that we are now considering. It must 

 not be lost sight of that the transversely-running membrane in 

 Megalobatrachus is not a characteristic of the female animal only, 

 and serving merely for the support of the oviduct : it is equally 

 developed in the male. 



In the figure that I have just referred to a projecting body 

 (text-fig. 34) lettered "a:" will be noticed. This is brownish in 

 colour, more or less oval in form, and depends from the anterior 

 side of the oviducal membrane. From its position I take it to 

 represent a somewhat similar body which I have already referred 

 to as existing in the male Megalobatrachus. I have investigated 

 both by means of serial sections. 



In the case of the female the oval body consists of an outer 

 muscular layer which is thickened at the solid " neck " and con- 

 tinuous with the membrane, from which it freely depends into the 

 body-cavity. Through the "neck" passes a large blood-vessel, a 

 branch of the arteria comes aortse. The interior of the body con- 

 sists of largish nucleated cells of w^hich I could detect no regular 

 arrangement. In the male the structure seems to be the same, 

 with more muscular fibres interspersed in the core. I imagine 

 that this body is the persistent rudiment of the pronephros, but 

 the structural indications are quite inconclusive. If so, it is plain 

 that the oviducal funnel of the female can have nothing to do with 

 the pronephros. 



November 17, 1903. 

 H.G. The Duke of Bedford, K.G., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie dui-ing the month of October 1903 : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of October were 180 in number. Of these 83 were 

 acquired by presentation and 3 by purchase, 15 were born in the 

 Gardens, 78 were received on deposit and 1 in exchange. The 

 total number of departures during the same period, by death and 

 removals, was 139. 



Amongst the additions attention may be called to : — 



1. A fine male Chimpanzee (Anthropopithecus troglodytes), from 

 the Albert ISTyanza, presented by Lt.-Col. David Bruce, F.R.S., 

 Oct. 4th. This animal, so far as is known, is the first living 

 example received by the Society from Eastern Africa. 



2. Two Scoresby's Gulls {Leucophrevs scoreslni), deposited bv 

 the Hon. Walter Rotb.schild, M.P., Oct. 17th. 



3. Two Wharton's Fruit-Pigeons [Carpophana vJiartoni) and a 



