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and on the last named member, who supported the 
motion, pointing out that Mr. Garnett's motion, under 
the rules of the Society, ought to have come before a 
general meeting (of which October would be the first), 
and the President having so ruled on a question of order, 
Mr. Garnett at once withdrew it, to bring it up at the 
right time. 
In the course of the discussion it was announced that 
the arrears of subscriptions amounted to nearly $5,000 
and that the rules of the Society as regards arrears had 
been allowed to fall into abeyance. 
Mr. Quelch, Curator of the Museum, reported the 
following recent additions to the collection : — 
1. Throat pouch, or vocal drum of red howler, or baboon. It forms 
a. deep pouch in connection with the larynx, the vocal part of the 
windpipe, into which the air sack dips, so as to form a large resonant 
chamber, and the sound emitted is more like the roar of a lion than the 
cry of an ordinary monkey. It may be compared to an organ pipe, 
it is not so fully developed in any other of the animal kingdom. 
2. Marsupium, or brood pouch of the Awarie. It is formed by a 
folding of the skin around the nipples into which the young are placed 
by the mother. The awarie belongs to the kangaroo tribe. It is an 
opossum, and with one exception — the opossum of the United States — 
all the allies of the awarie are to be found in Australia. 
3. A curve bill creeper, presented by Mr. James Winter, and found at 
Massaruni. The bill may be compared to the form of a bill found in 
the sickle humming bird in an exaggerated condition. The tail is like 
the woodpecker's, stiff and sharp, giving support to the bird on the 
trunks of trees when searching for food, which it can get by means of 
its long curved-bill from the crevices of the bark. It is the first one 
found here, and is not mentioned in the list of birds of British Guiana 
published by Salvin. 
4. Tarantula spider, with dissection showing the poison glands and 
fang, the insertion of muscles which move it backwards and forwards 
and also the nerves which control the muscles. The facl of its being 
bird-eating is fully established. 
