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Show 3 thrown by these specimens on the relationships of the ^Epy-ornithidpe as a whole. A brief account was also given of the distal end of the tibia of a large Ratite bird from the Upper Eocene Beds of the Fayum district of Egypt, its possible affinities were discussed, and the name Eremopezus eoccznus, gen. et sp. nov., suggested for it. The chief characters of the bone are : (1) the distal end of the shaft and the articulation are strongly compressed antero-poste-riorly ; (2) there is no extensor • bridge ; (3) the intercondylar groove is strongly marked. The specimen indicates a bird rather larger than an Emu. The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will be held on Tuesday, the 2nd February, 1904, at half-past Eight o'clock P.M., when the following communications will be made :- 1. Mr. R. LYDEKKER.-On the Subspecies of Giraffa camelopardalis. 2. Mr. OLDFIELD THOMAS, F.R.S.-On a Collection of Mammals from Namaqualand. 3. Mr. F. E. B E D D A R D , F.R.S.-On the Arteries of the Base of the Brain in certain Mammals. The following papers have been received :- 1. Mr. G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S.-Descriptions of Three new Fishes discovered by the late Mr. J. S. Budgett in the Niger. 2. Mr. G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S.-On the Type Specimen of a West-African Fish, Clarias Iceviceps Gill. 3. Mr. M A R T I N JACOBY.-Another Contribution to the Knowledge of African Phytophagous Coleoptera. 4. Mr. CYRIL CROSSLAND, F.Z.S.-On the Marine Fauna of Zanzibar and British East Africa.-Polychseta Part III. 5. Mr. CYRIL CROSSLAND, F.Z.S.-The Polychsetaof the Maldive Archipelago from the Collections made by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner in 1899. 6. Mr. J. L E W I S BONHOTE.-Coloration in Mammals and Birds. Communications intended for the Scientific Meetings of the ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF L O N D O N should be addressed to P. CHALMERS MITCHELL, Secretary. 3 HANOVER SQUARE, LONDON, W. 20th January, 1904. |