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Mr. R. J. Pocock contributed some " Supplementary Notes on the 

 Fauna of the Mergui Archipelago," the result of his examination of some 

 fresh material which had lately come to hand. 



The evening was brought to a close by an exhibition by Mr. Carruthers, 

 with the aid of the oxy-bydrogen lantern, of some beautiful slides of sections 

 of fossil plants. A second series (zoological) exhibited by the President, 

 included several minute organisms of extreme interest. 



This meeting brought the session of 1892-93 to a close. 



Zoological Society of London. 



May 17.— Prof. W. H. Flower, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the 

 chair. 



Mr. W. T. Blanford exhibited and made remarks on the skin of a Wild 

 Camel obtained by Major C. S. Cumberland in Eastern Turkestan. 



In a paper " On the Geographical Distribution of the Land Mollusca 

 of the Philippine Islands," the Rev. A. H. Cooke showed that the distribution 

 of the different subgenera of Cochlostyla affords an interesting clue to the 

 early relations of the various islands of the Philippine group. Regarded 

 from this point of view, the central islands, Samar, Leyte, Bohol, Cebu, 

 Negros, and Panay, with Luzon, were closely related, while Mindoro and 

 Mindanao were remarkably isolated even from their nearest neighbours. 

 An examination of the intervening seas accounted for these phenomena, 

 the depths between the central islands being inconsiderable, while Mindoro 

 and Mindanao are surrounded by very deep water. The Mollusca of the 

 two ridges between the Philippines and Borneo, formed by Busuanga, 

 Palawan, and Balabac, and by the Sulu Archipelago, were partly Philippine, 

 partly Indo-Malay. Two remarkable groups of Helix, peculiar to Mindoro, 

 Busuanga, and Palawan, showed relations with Celebes and possibly with 

 New Guinea. The Mollusca of the Batan, Tular, and Talantse Islands 

 were also discussed. Regarded as a whole, the Land Mollusca of the 

 Philippines were stated to contain: — (1) Indo-Malay, (2) Polynesian, 

 (3) indigenous elements, the first decidedly predominating. 



A communication was read from Graf Hans von Berlepsch and Herr J. 

 Stolzmann, containing an account of a collection of birds made by Herr J. 

 Kalinowski in the vicinity of Lima and lea, in Western Peru. The species 

 of which examples were obtained in these localities were eighty in number. 

 In an Appendix an account of previous authorities on the same subject 

 was added. 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger gave an account of Lucioperca marina, a rare 

 species offish, originally described by Pallas from the Black Sea and the 

 Caspian, and little known of late years. 



