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Show A communication from Major G. F. E vans contained notes on observations he had made on the Goral (Cemas gored) in Burma. A paper by Miss D orothea M. A. B ate contained an account of a collection of the Mammals of Crete. Examples of sixteen forms, of which six were described as new subspecies, were contained in the collection, and these were enumerated and remarked upon in the paper. The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will be held on Tuesday, the 28th November, 1905, at half-past Eight o'clock p.m., when the following communications will be made :- 1. Mr. Oldfield T homas, F.R.S.-The Duke of Bedford's Exploration in Eastern Asia. List of Mammals obtained by Mr. M. P. Anderson in Japan. 2. Mr. 0 . T ate R egan, F.Z.S.-A Revision of the Fishes of the Family Gcdaxiidce. -3. Mr. J. L ewis B onhote, F.Z.S.-The Mammalian Fauna of China.-Part I. Murince. 4. Mr. R. L yd ekk er , F.R.S.- On Colour-evolution in Guerezas. The following Papers have been received :- 1. Mr. M artin J acoby, F.E.S.-Descriptions of new Species of Oedionychis and allied Genera (Phytophagous Coleoptera). 2. Mr. B ashford D ean.-Notes on the Living Specimens of the Australian Lung-fish (Cercitodus forsteri) in the Zoological Society's Collection. 3. Dr. A lfred Duges.- Description d'un Opliidien nouveau du Mexique (Morenoa orizabensis, gen. et sp. nn.). 4. Mr. L. D oncaster, F.Z.S.-On the Colour-variation of the Beetle Gonioctena variabilis. 5. Capt. F. W a l l, C.Z.M.S.- Notes on a Collection of Snakes from Japan and the Loo Choo Islands. 6. Mr. P ercy I. L athy, F.Z.S.- On Three new Forms of Butterfly of the Genus Heliconius. 7. Mr. F rank E. B eddard, F.R.S.- On some Points in the Vascular System of Hatteria compared with that of the Lacertilia and the Crocodilia. 8. Mr. F rank E. B eddard, F.R.S.-On a new Species of Ponto-drilus from the Shores of the Red Sea. |