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Contributions to the Natural History of Lake TJrmi, N.W- 

 Persia, and its NeighbourLood. By Eobekt T. Gukikeb, 

 M.A., F.E.G-.S., Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. 

 (Communicated by tbe President.) 



[Read 15th June, 1899.] 



(Map Pu 21 & Plates 22-30.) 



Contents. 



Page 



G-eneral Remarks. By Robert T. Gdnther, M.A., F.R.Gr.S 345 



List of Animals distinguished bv Syrian Names 371 



Reports on the Specimens collected: — 



The Wild Sheep of the Urmi Islands. By Dr. A. G-ijnther, F.R.S., 



Pres. Linn. Soc 374 



The Pliocene Mammalia of the Bone-beds of Maragha. By 



Robert T. GiJNTHER, M.A., F.R.G.S 376 



Reptilia and Amphibia. By G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., F.Z.S.... 378 



Pishes. By Dr. A. GiJNTHER, F.R.S., P.L.S 381 



Land and Freshwater MoUusca. By Edgar A. Smith, F.Z.S. ... 391 



Crustacea. By Robert T. GtJNTHER, M.A., F.R.G.S 394 



Ohilopoda and Arachnida. By R. I. Pocock 399 



Acari. By Albert D. Michael, F.L.S., F.R.M.S 407 



Lepidoptera Rhopaloeera. By A. Gr. Butler, Ph.D 408 



Lepidoptera Phaljena;. By Sir George F. Hampson, Bart 411 



Neuroptera and Diptera. By Robert T. G'jnthbr, M.A. 414 



Orthoptera. By Malcolm Burr, F.Z.S., P,E.S 416 



Note on a Jurassic Ammonite. By G. 0. Crick, F.G.S 418 



Fossil Eohinoidea. By J. W. Gregory, D.Sc, F.G.S 419 



Fossil Corals. By J. W. Gregory, D.Sc, F.G.S 424 



Marine Tertiary (Miocene) MoUusca. By R. Bullen Newton, 



F.G.S ...'. 430 



Note on a Palseozoic Limestone. By R. Bullen Newton, F.G.S. 452 



General Eemaeks. 

 It is now more than three years since Mr. P. L. Sclater showed 

 me a letter from my friend the Eev. P. F. Irving, dated Urmi, 

 Oct. 6, 1895, in which the organism dwelling in the Salt Lake of 

 Urmi, which Lord Curzon of Kedlestone had previously referred 

 to as a jellyfish, is compared to "a tiny shrimp." Further 

 searches in the literature showed that Abich had already recorded 

 presence of a Crustacean, but that the majority of travellers 

 uad writers described Lake Urmi as a "Dead Sea," totally devoid 

 of liic on account of its excessive salinity. 



I received private information that edible fish were to be caught 

 in the rivers ; but I was unable to obtain any further information 



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