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Show 104 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE PUDU DEER. [Feb. 27, the preceding one. We name it after our much lamented able friend Dr. S. P. Woodward, whose premature death was a very great loss to science as well as to his many friends ; for no observer was more acute and conscientious or more correct in bis varied researches. 4. THECIDIUM BARRETTI, Woodward, MS.; Davidson, Recent and Tertiary Species of Thecidium (Geological Magazine, i. pi. 2. f. 1, 2, 3, July 1864). As stated in the paper above mentioned, in external shape this most remarkable species cannot be distinguished from the Mediterranean shell; but its interior is very different, and resembles, in its simple arrangements, that of several Jurassic forms, such as Thecidium moorei, Th. triangulare, &c. Thecidium barretti was obtained by Mr. Barrett, at 60 fathoms, on the north-east coast of Jamaica, and was also found by him fossil in the newest pliocene beds of the same country. 5. THECIDIUM MEDITERRANEUM, Risso. Two specimens of this species were dredged alive by Mr. Barrett, at 60 and 150 fathoms, on the north-east coast of Jamaica. In pi. 2. fig. 5, of vol. i. of the ' Geological Magazine' for July 1864, I have described and represented the interior of the dorsal valve of one of these specimens. DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XII. figs. 3 & 4. Fig. 3. Argiope barrettiana, nat. size. 3 a. ,magnified. 3 b. , interior of dorsal valve. 3e. , ventral valve of another specimen. Fig. 4. Argiope ivoodwardiana, nat. size. 4 a. , magnified. 4 b. , profile view of both valves. 4 c. , ventral valve. Februarv 27, 1866. Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. Mr. P. L. Sclater called the attention of the Meeting to the fine male example of the diminutive Pudu Deer of Chili (Cervus pudu), recently presented to the Society's Menagerie by Mr. Charles Bath of Ffynone, Swansea. In the temporary letterpress accompanying the figure of this animal in the second series of 'Zoological Sketches' (pi. 11), Mr. Sclater had stated that it appeared somewhat dubious whether this Deer ever developed horns at all. There could, however, be no longer any doubt upon the subject, as the present example showed |