192 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 
on the Potto to the Meeting of the British Association in 1850, 
and a second on the anatomy of the Potto in 1860, in which 
he refers to a complete monograph of this animal published by 
him in 1859, in the seventh volume of the Transactions of the 
Eoyal Academy of Sciences of the Netherlands (Ortleedkun 
dig Ondersock van der Potto van Bosman door F. A. W. Van 
Campen Med. Cand. Uit due Platen Amsterdam. 4to, 77 pp.) 
Van der Hoeven also details his arrangement of the Lemuridce, 
published in his " Handbook of Zoology," and refers again to 
the peculiarity in the Potto, " that some of the spinous pro- 
cesses of the neck, covered only by a thin corneous epiderm, 
pierce through the fur-like prickles. They are those of the 
fifth to the last cervical, and of the first two dorsal vertebras." 
These projecting processes are evident, Mr Carruthers informs 
me, in Mr Bennett's specimen, though, probably from its 
youth, neither so numerous nor so strongly marked as Van 
der Hoeven describes them. In the two stuffed specimens in 
the British Museum they cannot be detected, as might have 
been expected ; as already stated, I could not detect this pecu- 
liarity in my specimen of the Angwdntiho. 
I have been recently favoured with the following explana- 
tion of the name Angwdntiho, horn the Rev. Alexander Robb : 
— " The name Angwd-ntibo is compound ; the first part is the 
same as the name of the domestic cat, w^hich the Calabar 
people call Angwd, or Angwd-rnhdna — the ng being a very 
soft nasal sound. Angwd is probably onomatopoetic, from its 
resemblance to the sound of the mew or cry of the cat. The 
meaning of ntibo is unknown to me. The Angwdntiho is, 
therefore, so named, probably because it is supposed to re- 
semble the cat, either in its cry or in some of its habits. We 
give this note as a correction of the etymology proposed in 
the letter at the beginning of the above pape*"." 
The Secretary reported that as several communications still 
remained in his hands, which he was anxious should not 
be allowed to lie over to another Session, he proposed that 
another meeting of the Society should be held on Wednesday, 
the 9th of May. This proposal was agreed to, and the 
Society adjourned. 
