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Mr, F. E. Beddaed, F.R.S., F.Z.S., Prosector to the Society, 

 gave an account of his identification of an Oligochsete Worm 

 obtained in considerable numbers from a well near Cambridge, 

 England. He described the worm as a new species of the genus 

 Phreatothrix, the only other species of which had been described 

 thirty years ago from the underground waters of Prague. 



A Memoir by Mrs. E. W. Sexton, entitled " On the Amphipod 

 Genus Trischizostoma" and communicated to the Society by 

 Dr. W. T. Oalman, F.Z.S., was based on a rich material obtained 

 by the steamer of the Marine Biological Association in the Bay 

 of Biscay, and by the steamer of the Irish Department of Agri- 

 culture off the west coast of Ireland. 



A short paper was read by Mr. Henry Scherren, F.Z.S., on 

 " Certain Errors respecting George the Fourth's Giraffe." The 

 Author adduced evidence to show that the time the animal lived 

 at Windsor had been much understated, and added details as to 

 its life in confinement, the presentation of the skin and skeleton 

 to the Museum of the Society, and the notes made by R. B. Davis 

 while painting a picture of the animal at Windsor. 



Mr. 0. L. BouLENGER, F.Z.S., communicated observations on 

 the breeding-habits of a Cichlid Fish {Tilcqna nilotica) which he 

 had been able to make in the course of a visit last year to 

 Lake Qurun in the Fayum province of Egypt. 



A memoir entitled ''A Revision of the Oi'iental Pelobatid 

 Batrachians (Gemis Megalophrys)" was read by Mr. Beddard, 

 F.B.S., in the absence of the Author, Mr. G. A. Boulenger, 

 F.R.S., Vice-President of the Society. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will 

 be held on Tuesday, the 12th May, 1908, at half- past Eight 

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

 made : — 



1. 0. F. JENKitf. — ^The C. Crossland Collection of Calcarea 

 from Zanzibar and Wasin (British East Africa). 



2. R. E. Turner, F.Z.S. — Notes on the Australian Fossorial 

 Wasps of the Family Sphegidce, with Descriptions of new Species. 



3. J. T. Cunningham, M.A., F.Z.S.— The Heredity of Secondary 

 Sexual Characters in relation to Hormones : a Contribution to the 

 Theory of Heredity. 



