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Mr. Ernest Gibson, F.Z.S., read a paper on the Nato Cattle of 

 the Argentine, and exhibited the skull and a photograph of some 

 specimens formerly in his possession which he believed to be the 

 last of the breed. 



Dr. G. E. Nicholls, F.L.S., contributed a paper on the 

 Urostyle (Os Coccygeum) of the nurous Amphibia. 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S.. F.Z.S., gave an account of his 

 paper " On the Snakes of the Belgian and Portuguese Congo, 

 Northern Rhodesia, and Angola." It contained a list of all the 

 species known to inhabit this region, wibh keys to the identi- 

 fication of the genera and species, and the descriptions of two 

 new forms from Angola and Katanga. 



Dr. Robert Broom, D.Sc, C.M.Z.S.,read a paper on some new. 

 Carnivorous Therapsids in the Collection of the British Museum. 

 Most of the specimens described have been for many years in the 

 Collection, but owing to their small size and imperfect condition 

 they have not hitherto been recognised as new. Five species, 

 belonging to four new genera, are Therocepbalians. Two sj)ecies, 

 one of which belongs to a new genus, are Gorgonopsians, and one 

 of a new species of a previously known Cynodont genus. 



Dr. Broom also read a paper dealing with the organ of 

 Jacobson and its relations in the " Insectivora " Tupaia and 

 Gymnura. Gymnura is shown to have the same type as is found 

 in Erinaceus, Sorex, and Talpa, and most higher Eutherians such 

 as Felis, Lemur, iniopteris, Ovis, Eos, Equus, Procavia. Tupaia is, 

 on the other hand, has, like the allied Macroscelides, the primitive 

 Marsupial type. Peters and Haeckel in 1864 and 1866 had 

 suggested separating Tupaia and Macroscelides as a suborder 

 of the Insectivora, but the condition of the nasal cartilages shows 

 that the Menotyphla should form a distinct Order, not even 

 closely allied to the typical Insectivora. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will be 

 held on Tuesday, April 27th, 1915, at half -past Five o'clock p.m., 

 when the following communications will be made : — 



