SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 33 



Zoological Society of London. 



Nov. 19, 1889.— Prof. Flower, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the 

 chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to 

 the Society's Menagerie during the month of October, 1889, and called 

 special attention to the arrival of a young male Gaur, Bibus gaurus, from 

 Pahang, one of the native States in the Malay Peninsula, presented to the 

 Society by Sir Cecil C. Smith, Governor of the Straits Settlement. 



The President exhibited and made remarks on a head of an African 

 Rhinoceros, Rhinoceros bicomis, with a third posterior horn partially 

 developed. The animal from which it was taken had been shot by 

 Sir John Willoughby, in Eastern Africa. 



The Secretary exhibited a skin of an albino variety of the Cape Mole-Rat, 

 Georychus capensis, forwarded to the Society by the Rev. G. H. R. Fisk, 

 of Capetown. 



Mr. A. Smith-Woodward exhibited and made remarks on a portion of 

 the rostrum of an extinct Saw-fish (Schlerorhynchus) from the chalk of 

 Mount Lebanon. 



Mr. Goodwin exhibited and made remarks on specimens of some rare 

 Paradise-birds obtained by him on Mount Owen-Stanley, New Guinea, 

 when in company with Sir William Macgregor's recent expedition; also 

 some photographs taken on the same occasion. 



A communication was read from the Rev. Thomas R. R. Stebbing and 

 Mr. David Robertson, containing the descriptions of four new British 

 Amphipodous Crustaceans. These were named Sophrosyne robertsoni, 

 Syrrho'e Jimbriata, Podoceropsis palmatus, and Podocerus cumbrensis. Of 

 these Sophrosyne robertsoni belonged to a genus first observed at Kerguelen 

 Island. 



Mr. G. W. Butler read a paper on " The Subdivision of the Body-cavity 

 in Lizards, Crocodiles, and Birds," in which an attempt was made to 

 analyze the complex conditions of the membranes observable in the last 

 two groups, and to express them in terms of the simpler structures found in 

 the Lizards. 



Mr. J. H. Leech read the third part of his paper on the Lepidoptera of 

 Japan and Corea, comprising an account of the Noctua and Deltoidce ; in 

 all upwards of 475 species. Of these forty-six were now described as new 

 to science, and two others were considered to be varietal forms. 



Mr. R. Lydekker read a paper on the remains of a Theriodont Reptile 

 from the Karoo System of the Orange Free State. The remains described 

 were an associated series of vertebra? and limb-bones of a comparatively large 

 Theriodont, which was probably different from any described form. The 

 humerus was of the normal Theriodont type, and quite distinct from the 

 one on which the genus Propappus had been founded, which the author 

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