Basal length 325 mm.; last upper molar 42-3 x 17-5;. last 

 lower molar 48"2 x 16, 



Hah. Ja Rivei', Cameroons. 



Type. Old female skull. Collected by Mr. G. L. Bates. 



Mr. "W. Stores Fox, F.Z.S., read a paper on some bones of tlie 

 Lynx [Felix lynx) found in a limestone cavern in Cales Dale, 

 Derbyshire. This was only the third record of remains of this 

 species having been met with in the British Islands. 



Mr. J. L. BoNiiOTE, F.Z.S., comnninicated a paper dealing with 

 a collection of Mammals recently collected in the Malay Peninsula 

 by Mr. C. B. Kloss, and presented to the National Museum. 

 The collection contained examples of 17 species, chiefly Bodents, 

 of Avhich two, repi'esenting well-known Bornean species, wei'e 

 described as new. There was also a series of Mus jarak, a species 

 hitherto known from one specimen only and recently described 

 l)y the author. 



Mr. Charles S. Tomes, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., read a paper on the 

 minute structuie of the teeth of the Creodonts. The author 

 stated that suggestions which had been made as to a possible 

 relationship between the Creodonts and the Polyprotodont Mar- 

 supials had rendered it interesting to see how far tlie structure 

 of their teeth either supported or tended to disprove such specu- 

 lations. Marsupial teeth possessed in the structure of their 

 enamel a well-marked peculiarity, namely, the fi'ee penetration of 

 the epiblastic enamel by tubes continuous with those of the 

 mesoblastic dentine, and it happened that recent Carnivoia, the 

 descendants, more or less direct, of the Creodonts, also presented 

 a disposition of the prisms of their enamel somewhat unusual 

 amongst Mammalia. Teeth of Hycenodon, S'inopa, Oxyama, 

 Pachymna, BorJiycena, Didyniciis, and Gynodictis had been 

 examined, and in none of them were marsupial characters ob- 

 served ; on the contrary, in most of them characteiistic car- 

 nivorous patterns were found, so that in Oligocene and Eocene 

 times their enamel had already attained to its full specialisations, 



Mr. F. E. Beddarb, F.R.S., read a paper entitled " Contri- 

 butions to the Anatomy of the Ophidia." 



Dr. Jean Roux, the Curator of the Basle Museum of Natural 

 History, communicated a paper containing a synopsis of the Toads 

 of the genus Nectofhryne. with special remarks on some known 

 species and description of a new species from Geiman East Africa. 



