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condyle to be tlie degenerate ai-ticular. In the mammal the 

 quadi-ate was believed to be either lost or i-epresented by the inter- 

 articular cartilage. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will be 

 held on Tuesday, the 3rd May, 1 904, at half- past Eight o'clock p.m., 

 when the following communications will be made :— 



1. Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S. — On the Osteology and 

 Systematic Position of the rai'e Malagasy Bat Myzopoda aurita. 



2. Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S. — Contributions to the Anatomy 

 of the Lacertilia. — III. On some Points in the Vascular System 

 of Chamceleon and other Lizards. 



3. Mr. A. D. Imms, B.Sc. — Notes on the Gill-rakers of 

 Polyodo7b. 



The following papers have been received : — 



1. Sir Charles Eliot, K.C.M.G. — On some Nudibranchs from 

 East Africa and Zanzibar. — Part V. 



2. Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell. — On the Disposition and 

 Moi'pliology of the Intestinal Coils in Mammals. 



3. Dr. G. Stewardson Brady, F.R.S., C.M.Z.S.— On Entomo- 

 straca collected in Natal by Mr. James Gibson. 



4. Lt.-Col. J. Malcolm Fawcett. — On some new or little-known 

 Butterflies, mainly from high elevations in the N.E. Himalayas. 



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. 

 26th April, 1904. 



