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Show 1878.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 975 visceres abdominaux serait-il recu dans des vaisseaux veineux qui reuniraient en suite pour former les troncs que M . Owen represente planche vi. 3, 3 ? Je n'ai pas de reponse a donner a ces questions. L'injection du systeme vasculaire d'un individu a, l'etat frais, et I'observation d'un Nautile vivant pourraient seules les eclaircir."- VROLIK, op. cit. p. 11. EXPLANATION OF PLATE LX. Fig. 1. Section of Ammonites Ungulatus, showing the opercula, o, displaced but retained in the dwelling-chamber. 2. Ammonites subradiatus, with the operculum, o,in situ, closing the aperture of the shell, save the space, v, for the passage of the respiratory currents. 3. Section oi Nautilus pompilius, with diagrammatic outlines of the muscles of the shell and of the soft parts indicative of the relative position of the animal. 4. Section of Spirula australis. In the figures 3 and 4 the parts are indicated by the same letters, as follows : - Shell. A. Dorsal wall. B. Ventral wall. a. Chambers, b. Septa, c. Hard siphon, d. Soft siphon. Mantle. e. Dorsal wall. /. Ventral wall. Head. g. Tentacles or prehensile organs. Beak. h. Dorsal mandible, i. Ventral mandible, j. Funnel, k. Retractores infun-dibuli. /. Retractores capitis, m. Branchia;. n. Liver. December 3, 1878. Robert Hudson, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. The Secretary made the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during November 1878 :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of November was 66, of which 2 were by birth, 26 by presentation, 28 by purchase, 1 received in exchange, and 9 received on deposit. The total number of departures during same period, by death and removal, was 89. The most noticeable additions during the month were :- 1. Two examples of Horsfield's Tortoise, Testudo horsfieldi, from the neighbourhood of Tschina in Turkestan, presented by Dr. A. Straueh, C.M.Z.S., of the Imperial Zoological Museum of St. Petersburg, November 15th. The species having been established by Dr. Gray upon a single young specimen **, said to have come from Afghanistan, Dr. Straueh was anxious to have examples of the Central-Asiatic species (which 1 Gray, Cat. Tort. Brit. Mus. p. 7 (1844), and Cat. Shield Rept. in Brit. Mus. p. 7, tab. i. (1855). |