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installing in the Gallery of Reptiles at the British Museum 

 (Natural History), South Kensington. 



After paying tribute to the generosity of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 

 who had supplied the funds necessary foi- the extensive explor- 

 ations which were being cariied on by the Carnegie Institute, 

 under the direction of the speaker, he Avent on to speak of the 

 Geology of Wyoming and of the immediate locality, where the 

 specimen was obtained. He incidentally described the methods 

 employed by American collectors to secure vertebrate fossils in 

 fine condition. He then discussed the osteology of Dijjlodocus, 

 briefly pointing out some of the more interesting structural 

 features of the skeleton, and in this connection animadverted 

 upon certain so-called " restorations " made public in popular 

 magazines and emanating from artists whose artistic ability was 

 quite in excess of their scientific knowledge. 



Dr. Holland concluded his account by exhibiting in rapid suc- 

 cession pictures of a few of the more remarkable skeletons which 

 had been recovei'ed by the paliBontological staif of the Carnegie 

 Museum from various localities in the region of the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



Dr. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., read a paper on a uniqxie 

 specimen of Getiosaurus leedsi, a Saui'opodous Dinosaur from the 

 Oxfoi'd Clay of Peterboi'ough. He described the fore and hind 

 limbs and the tail, and confirmed the observation of the late 

 Prof. 0. C. Marsh, that Getiosaurus was one of the more 

 generalised Sauropoda. 



The Secretary read a short paper entitled "On a Young 

 Female Nigerian Girafie." On the evidence afforded by a young 

 female girafi'e, obtained by Captain Phillips in the district of 

 Gummel, about 300 miles due west of Lake Chad, and now 

 deposited in the Society's Gardens, he was inclined to believe in 

 the distinctness of the Nigerian Girafi'e {Giraffa camelopardalis 

 2oercdta of Thomas), which, however, was closely allied to the 

 Nubian form (G. c. typica). 



A communication was read from Mr. A. E. Shipley, F.R.S., 

 dealing with the Ento- Parasites he had obtained from the Zoo- 

 logical Gardens, London, and elsewhere. Thirteen species were 

 enumerated, one of which was described as new. 



Mr. R. H. Borne, F.Z.S., read a paper descriptive of the 

 muscular and visceral anatomy of a Leatheiy Turtle {Bermato- 

 chelys coriacea). The animal was a young female about four feet 

 long, and was thus considerably larger than the few examples of 

 this rare Chelonian that had previously been dissected. It came 

 from Japan. The muscles of the neck, trunk, and limbs were 

 described in detail, and notes were made of numerous hitherto 

 unrecorded or imperfectly described features of the alimentary 

 and other internal organs. 



