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Dr. Prior exhibited specimens of Pinns pinsapo, with undeveloped 

 catkins, like berries, and other specimens of conifers in flower. 



Mr. J. R. Jackson exhibited an Afghan knife, the sheath of which was 

 bound with bark of Carragana decorticans, selected on account of its bronze- 

 like appearance, and gave some account of the various native uses to which 

 this bark is put. 



On behalf of Mr. George Mayor and Mr. F. R. Maw, some photographs 

 of abnormally-situated nests of the Robin were exhibited, one of which had 

 been built upon a book-shelf in one of the studies at Tunbridge School, 

 and another in an old tin tea-pot which had been flung aside as useless, and 

 had lodged in a poplar. 



Mr. B. Shillitoe exhibited and made remarks upon an abnormal 

 hyacinth. 



An account of British Trap-door Spiders was then given by Mr. F. 

 Enock, and by the aid of the oxy-hydrogen lantern and some excellent 

 slides, their appearance and mode of life were graphically delineated and 

 described. 



In view of the approaching Anniversary Meeting, the election of 

 Auditors was next proceeded with, when Mr. Batters and Prof. Howes were 

 nominated on behalf of the Council, and Mr. Michael and Mr. J. Groves 

 on behalf of the Fellows. 



In the absence of the author, Mr. George Murray gave an account of 

 Graf zu Solms Laubach's Monograph of the Acetabulariea, and the principal 

 points were illustrated with lantern-slides. The limits of the group were 

 defined as excluding Dasycladece, and containing the living genera Aceta- 

 bularece, Polyphysa, Halicoryne, and Pleisphysa, of which the author 

 maintained only the first and third named. The extinct forms, principally 

 Acicularice, were dealt with very exhaustively, and their relation to the living 

 ones indicated. The paper consisted of a morphological account of all the 

 forms, as well as a detailed systematic review of them, and the author's 

 views of the relationship of the group to the forms of Dasycladea, Cymopolia, 

 Neomeris, Bornetella, &c, possessed much novelty and interest. 



Zoological Society of London. 



March %0th, 1894.— Prof. G. B. Howes, F.Z.S., in the chair. 



The Secretary exhibited and made remarks on a photograph of a young 

 male Indian Bison, Bos gaurus, proposed to be sent home as a present to 

 the Society's Menagerie by Major G. S. Roden. 



Mr. F. G. Parsons read a paper on the myology of the Hystricomorphine 

 and Sciuromorphine Rodents, and stated that it was based on the dissection 

 of the muscles of examples of twenty-one species of Rodents, belonging to 

 many families of the Hystricomorpha and Sciuromorpha, made at the 



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