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Show 288 MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON THE [Feb. 16, in the G.g. A.(31 July 1819, p. 1203). Mus cahlrlnus is quoted, without page, in Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. xxix., 1819, p. 70, and Rhinolophus trldens on p. 253 (but in the latter instance the page of the text of Geoffroy's ' Egypte' is quoted). Ichneumon edwardsil, I. gerslus, and others are also referred to by pages, on pp. 212 etc. of the same work. I regard this part as issued in 1818. There is a very interesting proof of pp. 99-144 preserved in the Gray Tracts, Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.). It is paged 1-46 and has for signature 7 H. N., and is dated 'l'Iniprimerie imperials, Mars 1813." This was sent by Geoffroy to Dr. J. E. Gray, and in a letter which accompanies it, without date, Geoffroy says : - " Je lui fais part dans cette livraison d'un imprime tire dans cette forme a deux exemplaires, et e'est la seule consideration que je sais faire valoir pour rendre moins indigne de lui ce faible don de ma reconnoissance." Engelmann, Bibl. Hist. Nat. 1846, p. 373, quotes 1813. V O L . IL, Mammlferes by Geoffroy and V. Audouin, pp. 733-743, and Mammlferes carnasslers by V. Audouin, pp. 744-750. In Ferussac, Bull. Sci. Nat. xix., 1829, p. 337, there is afoot-note which states " La partie de l'ouvrage qui contient ce memoire et le suivant [I.e. 'Mammiferes' and ' Mammiferes carnassiers '] vient seulement de paraitre." This seems to be conclusive, and the date of these two parts may be accepted as 1829. V O L . I., part 1, pp.53-62; VoL.I.,part4, pp.245-250, and V O L . IL, pp. 1-98, deal with Botany and Mineralogy, and do not come under this enquiry. I am indebted to Mr. Boulenger, Dr. Anderson, and Mr. B. B. Woodward for many valuable suggestions during the progress of this enquiry, which has extended over several years. 6. Notes upon the Anatomy of Phaethon. By FRANK E. B E D D A R D , M.A., F.B.S., Prosector to the Society. As the genus Phaethon is one of the least known among the Steganopodes, and as it is regarded by Fiirbringer as the most primitive form of that group, I am particularly grateful to Mr. J. J. Lister, of St. John's College, Cambridge, for allowing me to dissect a specimen. I identify the specimen (a $ ) with Phaethon jlavlrostris of Brandtl, as described by Mr. Lister in a paper upon the fauna of Christmas Island2. As to external characters, the oil-gland, as in other species of Phaethon, is densely tufted; the skin is very emphysematous; I 1 " Tentamen Monogr. zool. generis Phaethon," Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. (6) iii. 1840, p. 263. 2 " On the Natural History of Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean," P. Z. S. 1888, p. 528. |