On Erpetoichthys Calabaricus from Old Calabar. 331 



The following Gentlemen were elected Foreign Members of the 

 Society : — 



Sr. Durchlaucht Fiirst Colloredo-Mannsfeld, the President, Dr Theo- 

 dor Kotschy, the Vice-President, and Dr Georg Bitter von Frauenfeld, 

 the Secretary, of the Zoological and Botanical Society of Vienna. 



The following Donations to the Library were laid on the Table, and 

 thanks voted to the Donors : — 



1. Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, 

 Session 1863-64, No. 18. — From the Society. 2. On the Food of 

 Man in relation to his Useful Work, by Professor Lyon Playfair, C.B. 

 — From the Author. 3. Journal of Linnean Society, vol. ix. No. 35. — 

 From the Society. 4. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Nos. 72, 73, 

 and 77, Vol. XIV. — From the Society. 5. Canadian Journal, Nos. 54, 

 56, 57, 58, and 59. — From the Canadian Institute, Toronto. 6. Pro- 

 ceedings of the Geologists' Association, 1864-65. — From the Associa- 

 tion. 7. Declaration of Students of the Natural and Physical Sci- 

 ences. — From the Authors. 8. Transactions of the Botanical Society 

 of Edinburgh, Vol. VIIL, Part 2.— From the Society. 9. Notes 

 on Spa, &c, by Thomas Cutler, M.D. — From the Author. 10. Trans- 

 actions of the Geological Society of Glasgow, Part 1, Vol. II. — From 

 the Society. 



The following Communications were read : — 



I William Turner, M.B., exhibited two specimens of the Lemeopoda 

 elongata attached to the eyes of the Greenland Shark (Scym/ius 

 boreal is). 



The specimens of this curious parasitic animal had been 

 recently procured for him in Greenland by his pupil, 

 Mr E.Smith. 



II. ^1.) Dr John Alex. Smith exhibited perfect specimens of the new 

 Ganoid Fish, Erpetoichthys Calabaricus, from Old Calabar. 



At the meeting of the Society in March last Dr Smith 

 exhibited two specimens of a new ganoid fish which had 

 been sent to him from Old Calabar by the Eev. Alexander 

 Eobb. They were allied to the genus Polypterus. 



From the difference in shape of these Calabar fish — their 

 bodies being more cylindrical and elongated in proportion 

 to their breadth (having, indeed, quite a serpent-like 

 aspect), the fins being small in size, and the ventral fins 

 apparently absent, and as they also wanted one of the 

 opercular plates that existed in Polypterus — Dr Smith 



