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Show the following description of a new Antelope from British East Africa :- O u R E B IA KENY.E, S p . n . Allied to 0. haggardi, but with the horns smaller, thinner, and smoother. Basal length of typical skull 145 mm.; length of horns 136, circumference at base 53. Hah. Upper Tana River, Mt. Kenya District. Type. British Museum, No. 4.11.5.28. 15 The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will be held on Tuesday, the 21st March, 1905, at half-past Eight o'clock p.m., when the following communications will be made:- 1. Sir H a r r y J o h n s to n , G.C.M.G., K.C.B.- Notes on the Mammals and Birds of Liberia. 2. M r . M a r t in A. C. H in t o n .-On some Abnormal Remains of Cervus elaphus from the Post-Pliocene Deposits of the South of England. 3. Dr. R. B room , C.M.Z.S.-On the Affinities of Procolophon. 4. Mr. R. I. P o c o c k , F.Z.S.-On the Effects of Castration on the Horns of the Prongbuck. The following Papers have been received 1. Mr. A. E. S h ip le y , F.R.S.-Notes on Parasites from the Zoological Gardens, London, and elsewhere. 2. Dr. E. L o n n b e r g , C.M.Z.S.-On Hybrids between Leptts timidus and L. europceus from Southern Sweden. Communications intended for the Scientific Meetings of the Z o o lo g i c a l S o c ie ty o f L o n d o n should be addressed to P. CHALMERS MITCHELL, Secretary. 3 H an ov er S q u a r e , L on don, W . 14 th March, 1905. |