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Show PROCEEDINGS OP THE SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. -*- January 13, 1870. John Gould, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. The Secretary called the attention of the Meeting to certain additions to the Society's Menagerie during the months of November and December last. These were :- 1. Six Water-tortoises (Emys), presented by the Rev. Basil Wil-berforce, November 27th. Upon being taken to tbe British Museum for identification, four of these animals proved to belong to a new species, which had been described by Dr. Gray at the Society's Meeting in December under the name Emys flavipes* ; and the two others to a species described by Dr. Gray at the Society's Meeting on the 11th of November as Mauremys laniariaf. It was unfortunate that Mr. Wilberforce was unable to state the localities of these specimens, which had been purchased from various dealers durino-the last ten years, some of them having been in his possession for the whole of that period. 2. A specimen of a rare American Monkey, the Ouakari (Brachyurus ouacari, Spix), obtained from the forests of the Rio Negro by Lewis Joel, Esq., C.M.Z.S., H.B.M. Vice-Consul at Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, and deposited in the Society's Gardens by Mrs. Joel, December 16th. One specimen of this Monkey had been previously living in the Society's Gardens, in 1847, an original drawing * P. Z. S. 1869, p. 643. t P- Z. S. 1869, p. 499. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1870, No. I. |