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stone's Eland, presented by Mr. H. H.Johnston, C.B., and obtained in 1893 

 between Zomba and Lake Chilwa. 



Col. L. H. Irby exhibited two British-killed specimens of the Greater 

 Bullfinch, Pyrrhula major. 



Mr. W. T. Blanford exhibited skins of Capra sibirica and of Ovis amnion, 

 killed by Major Cumberland in the Altai Mountains. 



A communication was read from Mr. Swale Vincent, in which he 

 described the naked-eye and microscopical anatomy of the supra-renal bodies 

 (secreting glands) in the different orders of Fishes. They were present in 

 all the Elasmobranchii, Holocephali, Ganoidei, and Teleostii, and probably 

 also in the Dipnoi. He found no relation between the supra-renal and the 

 lymphatic head-kidney. 



Mr. Gerard W. Butler read a paper on the complete or partial suppression 

 of the right lung ih the Amphisbanida, and of the left lung in Snakes and 

 snake-like Lizards and Amphibians. It was an invariable rule that in the 

 A?nphisbcenid(B the right lung was the smaller, and usually rudimentary or 

 absent, while in all the other cases of inequality it was the left lung which 

 was the smaller. 



Mr. W. Saville Kent made some observations on the Frilled Lizard, 

 Chlamydosaurus kingi, of Western Australia. He was inclined to regard 

 it, if not as a surviving representative of the Dinosaurian Reptilia, as, at 

 any rate, a most interesting and anomalous lacertilian type that inherited its 

 characteristic bipedal method of progression from that extinct group. His 

 remarks were illustrated by photographs from life in characteristic attitudes, 

 and by specimens which had been mounted in accordance with those 

 photographs. 



Two communications were read from Dr. A. G. Butler, on a small 

 collection of Bntterflies made by Mr. Alfred Sharpe, Consul at Zomba, 

 British Central Africa, and on some Lepidoptera collected in Eastern Central 

 Africa by Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot. 



A communication was read from Mr. G. S. West, on the buccal glands 

 and teeth of certain poisonous Snakes. The author showed that in the 

 Opisthoglyphous Snakes the poison-gland is very variable both in form and 

 extent, and that its duct opens into a cavity formed by muscular folds 

 surrounding the grooved tooth. This opening is always towards the outer 

 side of the grooved tooth, and situated either at its base, or but a short 

 distance from it, and the parts were shown to be so related that the loss of 

 the tooth does not cause any injury to the duct. The reserve teeth were 

 shown to be in no way connected with the duct until called upon to replace 

 teeth that had been lost. 



A report was read from Mr. W. H. Ashmead upon the Parasitic 

 Hyraenoptera of the Island of Grenada, comprising the families Cynipidce, 

 Ichneumonida, Braconida, and Proctoirypida, of which 128 were described 

 as new. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



