SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 79 



Zoological Society op London. 



Jan. 5, 1892. — Prof. A. Newton, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 



The Secretary made a report on the additions that had heen made to 

 the Society's Menagerie during November and December, 1891. Amongst 

 these, attention was called to four Spotted-billed Pelicans, Pelecanus manil- 

 lensis, received from Calcutta, and to a second specimen of the Formosan 

 Fruit Bat — a species originally described from an example received alive by 

 the Society in 1873. 



Dr. E. C. Stirling exhibited some specimens of the new Australian 

 Marsupial, Notoryctes typhlops, and gave a short account of the habits of 

 this remarkable animal, as observed in a specimen recently kept in captivity 

 by one of his correspondents. 



An extract was read from a letter received from Dr. F. A. Jentink, 

 calling attention to the recent acquisition by one of his correspondents in 

 Java of additional specimens of the rare Bush Rat, Pithechir melanurus. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert exhibited a series of eggs of the Common and other 

 Cuckoos, mostly collected by himself and reliable friends, and made remarks 

 on the question of the similarity of the eggs of the Cuckoos to those of the 

 owners of the nest in which they are deposited. 



A communication was read from Dr. J. Anderson, containing notes on 

 a small collection of Mammals, Reptiles, and Batrachians made during a 

 recent visit to Algeria and Tunisia. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard read a paper upon the Earthworms collected by 

 Dr. Anderson during the same expedition. Amongst them were examples 

 of a new species of the genus Microscolex. A second new species of the 

 same genus, based on examples collected by Mr. E. B. Poulton in Madeira, 

 and proposed to be called M. poultoni, was also described. 



A communication was read from Mr. R. T. Pocock on some Myriopoda 

 and Arachnida collected by Dr. Anderson during the same expedition. 



Mr. M. F. Woodward read a paper on the milk dentition of Procavia 

 (Hyrax) capensis. The author showed that Lataste's canine has a counter- 

 part in the lower or mandibular series, and described for the first time two 

 small vestigial upper incisors. He concluded that the teeth named belong 

 collectively to the first or milk set, and that the formulation of the incisors 

 of this genus as f is probably due to the occasional persistence of the second 

 upper milk-incisor. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas gave an account of the species of the Hyracoidea, 

 of which order he had lately examined a large series of specimens. The 

 author recognised fourteen species of this group of Mammals, all of which he 

 proposed to refer to one genus (Procavia). Besides these, four geographical 

 subspecies were recognised. A new species was described as P. latastei 

 from Senegal. — P, L. Sclater, Secretary. 



