102 
Sharks' Fins exported from Bombay , chiefly to China, 1845-46. 
Weight, 8771 cwt. 50 lbs. Value, 182,316 rupees. 
The following are some of the entries of imports of sharks’ fins 
into Bombay in 1845-46 :— 
Weight. 
Value. 
cwts. 
lbs. 
rupees. 
African Coast . 
,. 104 
28 
2,118 
Arabian Gulf.. 
.. 1493 
98 
30,786 
Malabar . 
76 
10,757 
Cutch and Scinde .... 
.. 1149 
98 
25,076 
Kurrachee. 
589 
81 
13,096 
K,onkan. 
. 692 
44 
14,118 
2. Description of a new Crustacean. 
By W. Baird, M.D., F.L.S. etc. 
Cypridina Zealandica. (Annulosa, PI. XVII.) 
The valves of the carapace are of an oval form, somewhat flattened, 
but convex in the centre, and concentrically striated. The striae are 
numerous, close-set, and of a waved appearance. The surface of the 
valves is covered with minute punctations, which probably give origin 
in the fresh state to short hairs, though they are not visible in the 
dried specimens. The anterior extremity is slightly narrower than 
the posterior. The whole carapace is of a uniform white colour. 
The natural size is about one-fourth of an inch in length and one- 
fifth of an inch in breadth. 
Two specimens were sent to the British Museum by the Rev. R. 
Taylor of Waimati, New Zealand, along with a collection of marine 
and freshwater shells, but without any history attached to them. 
3. Contributions to the Anatomy of the Tapir. 
By H. N. Turner, Jun. 
A young American Tapir having unfortunately died in the Society’s 
establishment, I have been enabled, through the kindness of Mr. 
Mitchell, to make some interesting observations on the structure of 
that animal; and I now propose to notice a few points, which I be¬ 
lieve to be hitherto unrecorded, calling attention at the same time to 
certain interesting resemblances, both external and internal, existing 
between this form and those to which the more philosophic principles 
of modern zoology have proved that it is most nearly allied. Per¬ 
haps I may be permitted to recall the fact, that it was through the 
preference formerly given to those accounts which assigned to the 
Tapir a complex stomach, that Cuvier w r as led to abandon that me¬ 
thod of subdividing the Ungulata, which Professor Owen has since 
shown to be the true one, and which, in the paper that I last had the 
honour to communicate, I have endeavoured still further to support. 
It is very possible that Cuvier, had no accounts of the anatomy of 
the Tapir been extant, might have followed up and established his 
original idea; for on external examination alone, characters fully suf- 
