1900.] MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON BASSARICYON ALLENI. 661 



The Secretary called the attention of the Meeting to an article 

 by Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker (of Dibrughur), F.Z.S., which had lately 

 appeared in the ' Asian,' February 1900, concerning the Gaur (Bos 

 gaums) and the Gayal (Bos frontalis). After a careful study of the 

 subject for several years, Mr. Stuart Baker had come to the con- 

 clusion that the G-ayal was simply a domestic form of the Gaur, and 

 that the differences between them were produced by domestication. 

 A copy of Mr. Stuart Baker's paper upon this subject had been 

 deposited in the Society's Library. 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger exhibited a remarkably large specimen of a 

 Bornean Tortoise, recently described by him under the name of 

 Liemys inomata. The specimen, obtained by Mr. C. Hose in Lake 

 Majang, had a carapace length of 64 centimetres. Mr. Boulenger 

 at the same time pointed out that the name proposed by him would 

 have to give way to the prior one of Brookia baileyi, which had been 

 proposed by Mr. E. Bartlett, although the description given by that 

 gentleman could not be regarded as a satisfactory one. Dr. Sieben- 

 rock, of Vienna, had already shown that the skull described by the 

 late Dr. G. Baur as Adeloeheh/s crassa belonged to Liemys inomata. 

 The synonymy of BrooHa baileyi would stand as follows : — 



Hardella baileyi, E. Bartlett, Sarawak Gazette, May 1, 1895. 



Brookeia baileyi, E. Bartlett, Sarawak Gazette, June 1, 1896, and 

 Note-book Sarawak, No. 2, 1896, p. 81 ; Bouleng. Zool. Eec. 1897, 

 Eept. p. 26. 



Adelochelys crassa, Baur, Anat. Anz. xii. 1896, p. 314, fig. 



Liemys inomata, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) xix. 1897, 

 p. 469 '; Siebenrock, Sitzb. Ak. Wien, cvi. 1, 1897, p. 248. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On the Anatomy of Bassaricyon alleni. By Frank E. 

 Beddard, M.A., F. R.S.j Prosector and Vice-Secretary 

 of the Society. 



[Received May 1, 1900.] 



A specimen of this rare American Carnivore, which was acquired 

 by the Society in 1894 \ having died, I am able to call the atten- 

 tion of the Society to some new facts in its anatomy. 



The species to which it belongs, B. alleni, was described some 

 years ago by Mr. Thomas ' and figured. Mr. Tiiomas commented 

 upon the close likeness which the animal bears to the Kinkajou 

 (Cercoleptes), a likeness emphasized by the fact that the individual 

 now under consideration was presented to the Society as a 

 Kinkajou. To Mr. Thomas this singularly close resemblance 



1 P. Z. S. 1895, p. 521. 



2 " On Mammals from Ecuador," P. Z. S. 1880, p. 397, pi. xxxviii. 



