Minutes of Proceedings Ixv 
Proceedings of California Academy of Sciences, Vol. I11., Part 1. 
Journal of Cincinnati Society of Natural History, Vol. XVI., 
Parts 2 and 3. 
Proceedings of American Philosophical Society, No. 141. 
Transactions of Canadian Institute, No. 6, or Vol. III., Part 2. 
Fifth Annual Report of Canadian Institute, 1892-93. 
Memorias y Revista de la Sociedad Cientifica, ‘Antonio Alzate,’ 
Tomo VII., Nos. 1 and 2, 3 and 4. 
Proceedings and Transactions of Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 
Second Series, Vol. I., Part 2. 
Actes de la Société Scientifique de Chile, Tome IIL, Parts 1 and 2. 
Proceedings of Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, Vol. V., 
Part 2. 
Records of Geological Survey of N. S. Wales, Vol. III., Part 4. 
Occasional Papers of California Academy of Sciences, Vol. IV. 
A Classed and Annotated Bibliography of the Palzozoie Crustacea, 
1698-1892. 
Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, Nos. 278, 279, and 280. 
Collection of Papers by Professor Liversidge, of Sydney University : 
1. On the Origin of Moss Gold. 
. On the Condition of Gold in Quartz and Calcite Veins. 
. On the Origin of Gold Nuggets. 
. On Crystallization of Gold in Hexagonal Forms. 
. Gold Moiré Métalique. 
6. A Combination Laboratory Lamp, Retort, and Filter-stand. 
Mr. R. TRIMEN exhibited a skin of Vipera rhinoceros, Schlegel 
(=Lchidna Gabomca, Dum. et Bibr.), recently received at the Museum 
from Mr, J. L. Krige, who wrote that the snake was killed near the 
terminus of the Pungwe River Railway. This near relation alike of the 
Puff Adder and the ‘River Jack’ (V. nasicornis, Shaw) is much more 
strikingly coloured and marked than either of those congeners, and is 
specially characterized by the extreme regularity of the markings— 
alternate reddish parallelograms and dark-brown figures like an hour- 
glass—forming a conspicuous band down the middle of the whole length 
of the back. From the descriptions published, this viper appears to 
possess at the extremity of the head, between the nostrils, two large 
spiny horn-like scales, but nothing approaching in size to the nasal 
process so conspicuous in the ‘ River Jack.’ 
V. rhinoceros has long been known to have a wide range, from the 
Gaboon in equatorial West Africa as far down as Damaraland, and it 
was met with once at Borer in Mozambique by Dr. Peters. It does not 
appear to have been observed in extra-tropical South Africa hitherto. 
Dr. Peters’ specimen had swallowed an ichneumon (Bdeogale crassicauda). 
Or Ee & b 
