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Show 1869.] LETTER FROM DR. J. ANDERSON. Ill EXPLANATION OF PLATE VIII. Fig. 1. Embletonia grayi, natural size. 2. The same, magnified. 3. The same, viewed dorsally when in a state of repose. 4. The head, seen from above, showing the expanded oral lobes. 5. A portion of the odontophore, viewed laterally. 6. The same, from above. 7. A single lingual plate detached and magnified 300 diameters. 8. A mass of ova. 9. First condition of the embryo on quitting the egg. 10. The same having lost its ciliated lobes, or epipodia. 11. The cast nautiloid shell. 12 & 13. The embryo about a month old, showing at a the eyes, at b the auditory vesicles, and at c the heart. February lith, 1869. Osbert Salvin, Esq., M.A., in the Chair. The following extract was read from a letter addressed to the Secretary by Dr. John Anderson, C.M.Z.S., dated Calcutta, January 5th:- " I have brought back a tolerably large collection from Yunan and Upper Burmah; but I had great difficulties to contend with, and it is not so large as I expected it would be. Once across the Kak-hyen Hills, our road lay through paddy-fields in elevated valleys (4000 to 5000 feet), defined by long ranges of high mountains. It was unsafe to venture on the hills; so that my spoils are almost entirely derived from a cultivated country. Ailurus abounds; and two, if not three, species of Manis are very common. Pheasants are plentiful; and Western Yunan, on the very confines of Burmah, is apparently rich in Thaumalea amherstice. If I could have ventured on the hills, I believe I could have made good bags of this splendid bird. On our way through the Shan states we saw its handsome tail-feathers very frequently in the hands of the natives, who use them as ornamental fly-switches. But all the information gained in the journey will be given in the Report which will be submitted to Government." Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier exhibited a pair of remarkably large horns of the Cape-Buffalo (Bos caffer), and two remarkable pairs of horns of the Domestic Goat. Mr. William Jesse read the following Report to the Council of the Society upon his proceedings in connexion with the Abyssinian Expedition : - G E N T L E M E N . - I t is with pleasure that I find myself in a position |
