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individual alveoli and cell-masses ai-e separated from one another 

 by a delicate packing of connective tissue. 



The Kidney. — (Owen, I.e. p. 44, pi. xiv. fig. 3.) Except at the 

 hylus the kidney is not lobulated. Thickenings of the capsule 

 along certain anastomosing lines give it, however, superficially a 

 lobulated appearance. 



In the entire absence of any pyramids projecting into the pelvis 

 there is more resemblance to the Tapir than to the Horse. 



The Bladder and Urethra. — (Owen, I. c. p. 49, pi. xvi.) The 

 seminal vesicles and prostate are more complex than one would be 

 led to suppose from Owen's description and figure. When fully 

 dissected out, the seminal vesicles can be resolved into a number 

 of convoluted tubes, that converge towards the neck of the 

 bladder and unite to form a pair of common ducts which open 

 into the vasa deferentia shortly before their entry into the 

 urethra. This condition is similar to that desciibed by Forbes * 

 in the Sumatran Rhinoceros, but is very different to the 

 ai'rangement seen in the Sondaic Rhinoceros by Beddai'd and 

 Treves t, whei'e the seminal vesicles and prostate are quite simple 

 and compact, more nearly resembling the same organs in the 

 Tapir. 



The pi'ostate is largei' and more branched than I'epi-esented by 

 Owen. 



There was a well-marked uterus masculinus, not noted by Owen. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On Abnormal Eanid Larvte from North-Eastern India. 

 By Nelson Annandale, B.A., Deputy Superintendent 

 o£ the Indian Museum, Calcutta J. 



[Received December 13, 1904.] 



(Plate VI. §) 



The two specimens on which the following notes are based were 

 found in a bottle of miscellaneous specimens in the Indian 

 Museum, which had been purchased in 1893 and were said to have 

 come from Northern Cachar, in Assam. Unfoi'tunately no 

 information can be obtained as to the environment in which the 

 tadpoles (which are not in a good state of preservation) were 

 found. They were the only Batrachians in the bottle, but the 

 Museum also possesses a number of specimens from Tenasserim of 

 what I take to be the normal form of the same larva. Some of 



* Foi'bes, '■ On the Male Generative Organs of the Snmatran Rhinoceros," Trans. 

 Zool. See. vol. xi. p. 107. 



t Beddard & Treves, " On the Anatomj' of the Sondaic Rhinoceros," Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. vol. xii. p. 195. 



X Communicated by G. A. Boulengek, V.P.Z.S. 



§ For explanation of the I'latc, see p. 61. 



