1904.] ON MAMMALS FROM BRITISH NAMAQUALAND, 171 



probably in most of the early so-called Ratite birds. These 

 questions can only be settled by further excavations in the Libyan 

 Desert and the discovery of more complete material. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE V. 



Mnllerornis hetsilei M.-Edw. & Gmnd. 



Fig. 1. PeMs from side, p. 163. 



2. Femur, posterior sm'foco, p. 165. 



3. „ anterior „ 



4. Tibio-tarsus, posterior surface, p. 1G6. 



5. „ anterior „ 



6. Fibula, p. 166. 



7. Tarso-metatarsus, posterior surface, p. 166. 



8. ,, anterior „ 



All the figures J natural size. 



February 2, 1904. 



H.G. The Duke of Bedford, K.G., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. R. Lydekker exhibited and made remarks upon a head of 

 the Alaskan Moose [Alces gigas of American naturalists) which 

 had been obtained by Lord Elphinstone in Alaska, and mounted 

 by Mr. Rowland Ward. 



Mr. J. E. S. Moore, F.Z.S., exhibited a series of lantern-slides 

 illusti-ating the histology of cancer in animal tissues. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On a Collection of Mammals from British Namaqualand. 

 presented to the National Museum by Mr. C. D. Rudd. 

 By Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., and Haeold Schwann, 



F.Z.S.* 



[Received December 15, 1903.] 



(Plate Vl.t) 



By the generous help of Mr. C. D. Rudd, Mr. C. H. B. Grant, 

 who had previously collected at Deelfontein the fine series of 

 Mammals presented by Col. A. T. Sloggett, has been enabled to 

 continue in the Cape Colony collecting matei-ial for the British 

 Museum. 



* Diagnoses of the new forms published in Abstracts P. Z, S. 1904, no. 2, pp. 5, 6 

 (Feb. 9th). 

 f For explanation of the Plate, see p. 183. 



