258 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Fig. 6. Shoulder-girdles of 



Notor7iis (tlaick even line). 

 Tribonyx (thin ,,,,). 

 Ocydromus (dotted line). 

 Porphyrio (broken ,, )• 

 All drawn to a common length of trunk. 

 cr, cr', cr", cr'", ventral ends of coracoids. 

 sc, sc', sc", sc'", distal ends of scapula. 

 Fig. 7. Furculffi of 



A. Porphyrio. 



B. Tribonyx. 



C. Notornis. 

 T>. Ocydromus. 



All two-thirds natural size. 

 Fig. 8. Outline of pelvis of Notornis (even line) with that of Ocydromus superposed on 



the left side (dotted line), and that of Porphyrio on the right (broken line). 

 Fig. 8a. Outline of left half of pelvis of Notornis (even line) and Tribonyx (dotted line). 

 All drawn to a common length of sacrum and viewed from the dorsal aspect. 

 xy, long axis of sacrum. 

 il, ilium (jDrae-acetabular portion). 

 il', „ (jjost- ,, ,, ). 



is, is', is", is'", ischium. 

 pu, pu' , pit", pill", pubis. 

 sa, sacrum. 



(Figs. 3 to 8 from dra\vings by the author.) 



Art. XXXIII. — On a new Method of ■preserving Cartilaginous Skeletons and 

 other soft Animal Structures. By T. Jeffeey Parker, B.Sc. London, 

 Professor of Biology in the University of Otago. 



[Read before the Otago Institute, 21st June, 1881.*] 

 On reading Professor Miall's account of Ms method of employing glycerine 

 jelly instead of alcohol for the preservation of anatomical specimens,! it 

 occm-red to me that the more solid and less complicated structures might 

 be preserved by thoroughly impregnating them with glycerine jelly and then 

 allowing them to dry. The advantages of such a mode of preservation are 

 obvious, since it allows of the handling of the specimens, and does away 

 with the necessity for containing vessels, and the optical disadvantages of a 

 surrounding medium. 



I was able to make very few experiments on the subject before leaving 

 England, but during the whole of the past year I have tested the method 



* I have partly re-written this paper so as to include additions and corrections up to 

 the present time, February 18th, 1882.— T.J.P. 



t " Nature," vol. xviii., p. 312. 



