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Mr. E. Seimnnd, whose expedition had been assisted financially by 

 the Society's President and by Mrs. Percy Sladen. 



The Bat, which was the first of its genus to be received by the 

 National Museum, was considered to be new, and was diagnosed 

 as follows : — 



SCOTO^TYCTERIS BEDFORDI, Sp. n. 



General characters as in ^S'. zenkeri, but the ears very markedly 

 f-imaller, 11 mm. in length instead of 17. Postocular spots 

 smaller Interfemoral more hairy. Forearm 48 mm. 



Ilab. Fernando Po. 



Type. Female. Original number 31. 



Mr. J. G. MiLLAis, F.Z.S., exhibited a series of skins illustrating 

 the life-history of the Giey Seal (^Halichcerus gryinis). Up to 

 date this Seal had been pooi-ly represented in European and 

 American Museums and thei'e was no series nor description of 

 the pelages in existence which embi'aced a complete account 

 of the various types. The skins exhibited by Mr. Millais included 

 every known variation and had been obtained after much labour 

 and several hunting-expeditions. A short account of the geo- 

 gra,phical distiibution of this Seal was also given by Mr. Millais, 

 which included many new localities hitherto unknown to zoologists. 



Mr. J. FFOLLiOTT DARLING, F.Z.S., sliowed some photographs of 

 a very large male specimen of the Woolly Monkey {LagoHirix 

 humholdti) seen by him last year in Southern California. He said 

 this was much the largest specimen of this Monkey ever seen by 

 him, that it weighed about 55 lbs., and stood about 3 ft. high when 

 in an erect position. The partiality it exhibited for standing erect 

 was very marked, as was also the intelligent manner in which it 

 used its tail to assist it. This it sometimes had fixed like a 

 perpendicular scroll-brace as if made of wrought ii'on, and at 

 others held on by it to an iron bar and so helped to presei've its 

 equilibrium. 



Dr. Walter Kidd, F.Z.S., exhibited a drawing of, and read a 

 note on, the arrangement of hair on the nasal region of the Pai-ti- 

 coloui'ed Bear (^^Elvjrojnis melmioleucus), showing tliat this was of 

 the Derivative type, in which respect it difi'ered from the Ursidse 

 and the Pi-ocyonidaj, and resembled the Felida^. 



Mr. B,. E. PIoLDiNG exhibited and made remarks upon a double 

 head of a Lamb and the skull of a Spanish four-horned Ram 

 fi'actui'od in fighting. 



On behalf of Sir C. Eliot, K.O.M.G., a paper entitled ''On 

 some Nudibranclis from Zanziliar and East Africa, No. lY.," was 

 read Continuinir his account of the fauna of this resrion the 



