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says that our position at present is a very difficult one, as it is 

 uncertain how much of recently proposed alteration of classification 

 will be accepted. He considers that, while part of Levinsen's 

 classification will no doubt be accepted, there will be modification 

 in others, and he believes that in the future classification will be 

 more based upon anatomical structures. The position and nature 

 of the ovaria give some characters of value, but these characters 

 require careful study to see how far they can be made available. 



The fact is again emphasized that characters in one group or 

 family are almost useless in the next, and all attempts at fixing 

 certain characters as of primary importance and others of 

 secondary lead to no result. 



Major J. Stevenson-Hamilton, O.M.Z.S., Game "Warden of 

 the Transvaal, contributed a short paper recording the occurrence 

 of albino examples of the Reed-buck [Cervicapra arimdinum) in the 

 Sabi Reserve, and containing some interesting notes on the habits 

 and distribution of Sharpe's Steenbuck {Raphiceros sharpei), 

 which resembles the Grysbok much more closely than it resembles 

 the common Steenbuck in mode of life, and ranges from Nyasa- 

 land to the Transvaal, but gradually dies out to the south-east of 

 that country. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will be 

 held on Tuesday, May 6th, 1913, at half-past Eight o'clock p.m., 

 when the following communications will be made : — 



Exhibitions and ISTotices. 



Frank E. Eeddard, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., F.Z.S. 



Contributions to the Anatomy and Systematic Arrangement 

 of the Cestoidea.— X. On Two Species of Tapeworms from 

 Genetta dongolana. 



J. A. Milne. 



Pacific Salmon : an Attempt to evolve something of their 

 History from an Examination of their Scales. 



