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CONTENTS. 



I. On the Development of the Skeleton of the Tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus; toitJi 

 Remarks on the Egg, on the Hatching, and on the Hatched Young. By G. B. 

 Howes, LL.D., F.R.S., and H. H. Swinnekton, B.Sc, Marshall Scholar B. Coll. 

 Sci. Lond. {Brom the Huxley Research Laboratory.) (Plates I. -VI.) . page! 



II. Contribution towards a Knowledge of the Osteology of the Bigmy Whale (Neo- 

 balsena marginata). By Frank E. Beddard, M.A., F.R.S., Brosector and Vice- 

 Secretary of the Society . (Plates Vil.-IX.) 87 



III. On the Breeding -hahits of some West- African Fishes, ivith an Account of the 

 External Features in Development o/" Protopterus annectens, and a Description, 

 of the Larva of Polypterus lapradei. By J. S. Budgett, M.A., F.Z.S., Trinity 

 College, Cambridge. (Plates X. & XI.) 115 



IV. Third Contribution to the Lchthyology of Lake Tanganyika. — Report on the 

 Collection of Fishes made by Mr. J. E. S. Moore in Lakes Tanganyika and 

 Kivu during Ms Second Expeditio7i, 1899-1900. By G. A. Boulenger, i^.5.*S'., 

 F.Z.S. (Plates XIl.-XX.) 1S7 



V. On new or impeifectly-knoion Ostracoda, clilefly from a Collection in tlie 

 Zoological Museum, Copenliagen. By George Stewardson Brady, M.D., 

 LL.D., D.Sc, F.R.S., C.M.Z.S. (Plates XXI.-XXV.) 179 



VI. On the Myology of the Tongue of Bar rots, with a Classification of the Order, 

 based upon the Structure of the Tongue. By Geo. P. Mudge, A.R.C.S. Lond... 

 F.Z.S. , Lecturer on Biology, London School of Medicine for Women ; and 

 Demonstrator of Biology, London Hospital Medical School. (Plates XXVI.- 

 XXIX.) 211 



VII. On Okapia, a new Genus of Giraffidee, from Central Africa. By E. Ray 

 Lankester, M.A., LL.B., F.R.S., F.Z.S., Director of the Natural History 

 Departments of the British Museum, Correspondent of the Institute of France. 

 (Plates XXX.-XXXn.) 279 



