1886.] Affinities of Thylacoleo carnifex, Ow. 317 



November 25, 1886. 



Professor STOKES, D.O.L., President, in the Chair. 



In pursuance of the Statutes, notice was given from the Chair of 

 the ensuing Anniversary Meeting, and the list of Officers and Council 

 nominated for election, was read as follows : — 



President. — Professor George Gabriel Stokes, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D. 



Treasurer. — John Evans, D.C.L., LL.D. 



a . . f Professor Michael Foster, M.A., M.D. 

 secretaries. — < „, T : _ _ . . __ • ' _ \ 

 \ The Lord Rayleigh, M.A., D.C.L. 



"Foreign Secretary. — Prof essor Alexander William Williamson, LL.D. 



Other Members of the Council — Professor Robert B. Clifton, M.A.; 

 Professor George Howard Darwin, M.A., LL.D. ; W. T. Thiselton 

 Dyer, M.A. ; Professor David Fe rrier, M.A., M.D. ; Edward Frank- 

 land, D.C.L. ; Arthur Gamgee, M.D. ; Archibald Geikie, LL.D. 

 Professor Joseph Henry Gilbert, M.A. ; John Hopkinson, M.A., D.Sc. 

 J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.A.S. ; Sir Lyon Playfair, K.C.B., LL.D. 

 Professor Bartholomew Price, M.A. ; Professor Pritchard, M.A. 

 Admiral Sir George Henry Richards, K.C.B. ; Professor Arthur 

 Schuster, Ph.D. ; Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A. 



The Presents received were laid on the table and thanks ordered 

 for them. 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. " Additional Evidence of the Affinities of the Extinct 

 Marsupial Quadruped, Thylacoleo carnifex, Ow." By SIR 

 Richard Owen, K.C.B., F.R.S. Received October 5, 1886. 



(Abstract.) 



The subject of this paper is an entire lower jaw of the large extinct 

 marsupial which the author from previous fragmentary fossils con- 

 cluded to be part of a carnivorous beast of the size of a lion, the 

 probable prey of which had been the larger herbivorous marsupials, 

 also now extinct. Every additional character in the subject of the 

 present paper confirms the fitness of the genus named Thylacoleo. 



