thrown by these specimens on the relationships of the ^py- 

 ornithidfB as a whole. 



A brief account was also given of the distal end of the tibia of 

 a large Ratite bird from the Upper Eocene Beds of the Fayvim 

 district of Egypt, its possible affinities were discussed, and the 

 name Eremopezus eoccemis, gen. et sp. nov., suggested for it. 



The chief characters of the bone are : (1) the distal end of the 

 shaft and the articulation are strongly compressed antero-poste- 

 riorly ; (2) there is no extensor bridge ; (3) the intercondylar 

 groove is strongly marked. The specimen indicates a bird rather 

 larger than an Emu. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will be 

 held on Tuesday, the 2nd February, 1904, at half- past Eight 

 o'clock P.M., when the following communications will be made : — 



1. Mr. R. Lybekker. — On the Subspecies of Giraffa camelo- 

 pardalis. 



2. Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S. — On a Collection of Mammals 

 from Namaqualand. 



3. Mr. F, E. Beddard, F.R.S. — On the Arteries of the Base of 

 the Brain in certain Mammals. 



The following papers have been received : — 



1. Mr. G. A. BouLENGER, F.R.S. — Descriptions of Three new 

 Fishes discovered by the late Mr. J. S. Budgett in the Niger. 



2. Mr. G. A. BouLENGEB, F.R.S. — On the Type Specimen of a 

 West- African Fish, Clcm'ias Iceviceps Gill. 



3. Mr. Martin Jacob y. — Another Contribution to the Know- 

 ledge of African Phytophagous Coleoptera. 



4. Mr. Cyril Crossland, F.Z.S. — On the Marine Fauna of 

 Zanzibar and British East Africa. — Polychasta, Part III. 



5. Mr. Cyril Crossland, F.Z.S. — The Polychteta of the Maldive 

 Archipelago from the Collections made by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner 

 in 1899. 



6. Mr. J. Lewis Bonhote. — Coloration in Mammals and Birds. 



Communications intended for the Scientific Meetings of the 

 Zoological Society of London should be addressed to 



P. CHALMERS MITCHELL, Secretary. 



3 Hanover Square, London, W. 

 IQth January, 1904. 



