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Co. Fermanagh, in February last (Zool. p. 110), and was lent for exhibition 

 by Mr. C. Langham. 



Some photographs of English Red-deer heads, showing successive 

 growths of antlers in the same stag, by comparison of the shed horns, were 

 exhibited by Mr. Harting, on behalf of Mr. Lucas, of Warnham Court t 

 Horsham. 



Mr. A. Trevor Battye exhibited and made remarks upon a collection 

 of plants obtained during his sojourn last summer upon the island of 

 Kolguev. 



A paper was then read by Mr. F. W. Keeble entitled " Observations on 

 the LoranthacecB of Ceylon," in which island the author had made a 

 short sojourn in 1894. After remarking that in Ceylon many species of 

 Loranthus have large and conspicuous flowers, with the corolla-tube 

 brightly coloured, more or less tubular, and lobed, he pointed out that 

 certain deviations from the typical regularity of the corolla-tube were corre- 

 lated with the mode of fertilization of the flower by Sun-birds (Nectaritiece), 

 and this was made clear by diagrams and some excellent coloured drawings. 

 Discussing the mode of distribution of the seeds, Mr. Keeble first quoted 

 the views of Engler and Prantl, and the remarks in Kerner's ' Pflanzen- 

 leben ' (English edition), on the dissemination of the European Mistletoe, 

 and then detailed his own observations in the case of tropical LoranthacecB. 

 The modes of germination of various species of Loranthus and Viscum were 

 then described, as well as the curvature and growth of the hypocatyl, and 

 the effect of contact on the latter, and on its suctorial disc; the paper 

 concluding with some remarks on the forms of fruit and seed of Ceylonese 

 species of LoranthacecB. 



Zoological Society of London. 



April 2nd, 1895.— Mr. W. T. Blanford, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. 



The Assistant-Secretary read a report on the additions that had been 

 made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March, 1895. 



The Acting Secretary, Mr. Howard Saunders, exhibited, on behalf of 

 Lord Lilford, a specimen of the American Wigeon, lately obtained in York- 

 shire by Sir R. Payne-Gallwey, Bart., as reported in • The Field ' of the 

 9th March last. 



Mr. H. E. Dresser exhibited and made remarks on Dr. Radde's types 

 of Picus quadrifasciatus and Lanius obscurior from the Caucasus. 



Mr. Holding exhibited and remarked on some horns of cattle which 

 showed a singular variation in colour. 



Mr. Boulenger exhibited the type specimens of two new Chameleons from 

 Usambara, German East Africa. Special interest attached to them from the 



