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Mr. D. Sera-Smiru, F.Z.S8., Curator of Birds, exhibited the 
egg of Mantell’s Kiwi (Apteryx mantelli), laid in the Gardens 
on April 12th. It weighed 113 oz., and measured 4°75 x 
2°75 inches. The bird that laid the egg weighed only 654 oz., 
considerably less than the weight of a domestic hen, which laid 
eggs of only 27 oz. 
Dr. P. L. Sclater had recorded the laying of eggs by this species 
in the Gardens in 1853 and 1860, the weights of which were 
greater than that of the present specimen, one being 143 oz. and 
the other “somewhat larger” (P. Z. S. 1853, p. 350, and 1860, 
p- 194), and Sir Walter Buller had recorded the weight of an 
egg taken in the wild state as 15 oz. 90 grs. (Trans. New Zealand 
Inst. 1892, p. 85). 
Dr. F. E. Bepparp, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.8., communicated a 
paper by Surgeon J. C. Tuompson, U.S.N., entitled ‘‘ Further 
Contributions to the Anatomy of the Ophidia.” 
The Rev. T. R, R. Sreppine, M.A., F.R.S., F.LS., F.Z8., 
read a paper on Crustacea from the Falkland Islands. At 
intervals during a period of some fifteen years Mr. Rupert 
Vallentin, F.L.S., has used prolonged opportunities for collecting, 
among other things, the crustacean fauna of the Falkland Islands. 
An initial report on this subject was made to the Society in the 
year 1900. In January of the present year Dr. Thomas Scott, 
im the ‘Annals and Magazine of Natural History,’ has discussed 
some of the Copepoda. The contribution now offered has to do 
chiefly with the Malacostraca. Five new species are proposed :— 
LTanais ohlini, robust, with the sides parallel, unindented, the 
pleon with its telsonic segment the longest, the uropods six- 
jointed ; Zryphosites chevreuxi, in which the third pleon segment 
has the lower part of the hind margin on each side convex and 
serrate, with no upturned tooth; MJonoculopsis vallentim, having 
a very short process to the wrist of the second gnathopods ; 
Bovallia regis, with round eyes and the lower borders of all 
the pereon segments extended laterally outwards; and Para- 
dexamine nanus, founded on an ovigerous female, a tenth of 
an inch long, with the body feebly dentate. A new genus 
is defined for the species “ Cymodocea darwin” Cunningham. 
The synonymy of Dana’s “Spheroma calcarea” is adjusted. 
Cunningham’s Jphimedia normani is transferred to Chevreux’s 
genus Paraphimedia with notes and illustrations, and light is 
thrown upon the obscure Lembos fuegiensis (Dana). 
Dr. P. Cuatmers Mrrcnett, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., gave an 
account of Mv. Julian 8. Huxley’s paper on ‘The Courtship 
Habits of the Great Crested Grebe; with an Addition to the 
Theory of Sexual Selection.” 
