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Mr. H. R. Hogg, M.A., F.Z.S., gave an account of his paper on 

 e Spiders of the family Salticidpe, collected in Dutch New 

 linea by the British Ornithologists' Union and Wollaston 

 :peditions. One new genus and eleven new species were 

 a escribed. 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., F.Z.S., read a paper on the 

 Snakes of Madagascar, Comoro, Mascarenes, and Seychelles. The 

 fauna of these islands is remarkable for the absence of snakes 

 dangerously poisonous to man, with the exception of two Sea- 

 snakes known from the western part of- the Indian Ocean. The 

 paper contained a complete list of the species known to inhabit 

 these islands, with keys to the identification of the genera and 

 species. 



Dr. F. E. Beddard, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., Prosector to the 

 Society, read a paper dealing with Avian Cestodes, entitled " On 

 Taenia tauricollis of Chapman and on the genus Ghapmannia." 



Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, F.R.S., F.Z.S., Secretary to the 

 Society, read a communication on the Anatomy of the Gruiform 

 birds, Aramus giganteus Bonap., and Rhinochetus kagu, in which 

 he showed that A. giganteus resembled A. scolopaceus very closely 

 in the details of its muscular and bony anatomy, and that the 

 genus Aramus, in these respects, was very close to the true 

 Cranes. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business (closing 

 the Session 1914-1~5) will beheld on Tuesday, June 8th, 1915, 

 at half -past Five o'clock p.m., when the following communications 

 will be made : — 



EXHIBITIONS AND NOTICES. 



George Jennisqn. 



Notes on a nest-making Chimpanzee. 



