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Dr. W. E. Hoyle, F.R.S.E., communicated a paper by 

 Mr. R. C. Wroughton, of the British Museum (Natural History), 

 entitled " On a Collection of Mammals made by Mr. S. A. 

 Neave in Rhodesia, North of the Zambesi, with Field 

 Notes by the Collector." 



Ordinary Meeting, February 12th, 1907. 



Mr. Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S., in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the table. The following were among the recent 

 accessions to the Society's Library : — " Licensing and Temperance 

 in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark" by E. A. Pratt (8vo., 

 London, 1907), presented by the author; '■'■France in* North 

 Africa, ipo6," by T. W. Balch (la. 8vo., Philadelphia, 1906), 

 presented by the author; " The Record of the Celebration of the 

 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Benjamin Franklin... Apr il 

 17-21, igod" (ztto, Philadelphia, 1906), presented by the 

 American Philosophical Society; "The British Tunicata..." 

 By J. Alder and A. Hancock... vol. 2 (8vo., London, 1907), 

 purchased from the Ray Society. 



Mr. C S. Allott, M.Inst.C.E., and Mr. D. L. Chapman, 

 M.A., were nominated auditors of the Society's accounts for the 

 Session 1906-07. 



Dr. W. E. Hoyle, F.R.S.E., exhibited a coloured sketch of 

 a specimen of Beryx splendens, recently presented to the Man- 

 chester Museum by Mr. W. Vernon. It is of interest as having 

 been taken just on the boundary of the British Marine Area, as 

 defined by the Rev. A. M. Norman, F. R.S. It was taken by 

 the trawler "Evaline," in lat. 49° 10' N., long. n°W., at a depth 

 of from 170 to 200 fathoms. The species seems to have been 

 first recorded from Madeira, and is known from the coasts of 

 Spain and Portugal. 



Mr. John R. Ragdale exhibited and described a number of 



