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from Scotland, which is the skin now exhibited with that of the 

 Capybara for comparison." 



Sir Eimund Loder, at the request of the Committee of 

 Publication, has since had the skins photographed. The result 

 is shown in text-figs. 1 and 2, which should be viewed so that the 

 light falls on them from the right. 



Text -figure 2. 

 Head 



A Tail B 



A portion of the skin of a Pig : (A) natural size ; (B) enlarged four times. 



Notes from the Caird Insect House. 



Prof. H. Maxwell Lefroy, M.A., F.Z.S., Curator of Insects, 

 exhibited specimens of Insects that had been bred in the Caird 

 Insect House and read the following notes, which had been 

 extracted, with the assistance of Mr. C. J. C. Pool, from the 

 records made : — 



The Caird Insect House was opened in October, 1913, for the 

 exhibition of living insects and other invertebrates. Owing to 

 the difficulties of keeping living insects under artificial conditions, 

 and to the death of the head keeper, Quantrill, we have not 

 attempted to do more than maintain a large variety of species in 

 good condition. The following few notes of interesting species 

 that have been exhibited will illustrate some of the difficulties we 

 have had to deal with, and some of our successes. 



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