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of Zanzibar. Mr. Sclater referred this head to what is commonly called 

 the Korrigum Antelope, Damalis senegalensis. 



Prof. Howes made remarks on a dissection of the cephalic skeleton of 

 Hatteria, and pointed out some features of special interest exhibited by this 

 specimen. These were the presence of a pro-atlas and the existence of 

 vomerine teeth, as in Palaohatteria. 



Two letters were read from Dr. Emin Pasha, C.M.Z.S., dated Bagamoyo, 

 March, 1890, and announcing that he had forwarded certain zoological 

 specimens for the Society's acceptance. 



Mr. H. Seebohm exhibited and made remarks on a specimen of the 

 Eastern Turtle, Turtur orientalis, killed near Scarborough, in Yorkshire, 

 in October, 1889. 



Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell read the first of a series of contributions to our 

 knowledge of the Antipatharian Corals. The present communication con- 

 tained the description of a particularly fine example of the Black Coral of 

 the Mediterranean, and an account of a very remarkable Autipathid from 

 the neighbourhood of the island of Mauritius. 



A communication was read from Mr. E. N. Buxton, containing notes 

 on the Wild Sheep and Mountain-Antelope of the Algerian Atlas, taken 

 during a recent excursion into that country. These notes were illustrated 

 by the exhibition of fine mounted specimens of the heads of these animals. 



Mr. R. Lydekker read a note on a remarkable specimen of an antler of 

 a large deer from Asia Minor, which he was inclined to refer to an abnormal 

 form of the Red-deer, Cervus elaphus. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard read a paper on the minute structure of the eye in 

 some shallow-water and deep-sea species of the Isopod genus Arcturus. He 

 pointed out that in all the deep-sea forms there was some change in the 

 visual elements which indicated degeneration. 



Mr. E. T. Newton gave an account of the bones of some small birds 

 obtained by Prof. Nation from beneath the nitrate beds of Peru. These 

 bones seemed to occur in considerable abundance, and nearly all appeared 

 to belong to one small species of Petrel, which it was thought most nearly 

 resembled Cymochorea leucorrhoa or C. markhami, the latter of these being 

 now found living on the coast of Chili. 



A communication was read from Dr. Mivart, containing notes on some 

 singular Canine dental abnormalities. 



Mr. H. Elwes read descriptions of some new Indian Moths. 



May 20.— Prof. W. H. Flower, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



Mr. Gambier Bolton exhibited a series of photographs, principally of 

 animals living in the Society's Gardens and in Mr. W. Rothschild's Menagerie. 



Prof. Flower exhibited a photograph of a nest of a Hornbill (Toccus 



