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Show 486 MR. E. A. SMITH ON NEW SPECIES OF SHELLS. [Nov. 17, November 17, 1891. Prof. Flower, C.B., LL.D.. F.R.S., President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of October 1891 :- The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of October were 1 20 in number. Of these 85 were acquired by presentation, 12 by purchase, 10 on deposit, 12 by birth, and 1 by exchange. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 83. The most noticeable additions during the month were:- A young Button's Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus), captured near Christchurch, Hampshire, and presented by Mr. E. Hart, F.Z.S. This species is new to our list. A Land-Crab (Geocarcinus ruricola) from the Island of Fernando de Noronha, brought home and presented by Mr. D. Wilson- Barker, F.Z.S. A letter was read from Dr. G. Martorelli, Secretary of the Italian Society of Natural Sciences, Milan, enclosing a coloured drawing of both sexes of a hybrid Duck, bred in the public garden of Milan, between a male Branta rufina and a female Anas boschas two years ago. Six young ones were hatched, 3 male and 3 female. A communication was read from Mr. H. Nevill, F.Z.S., urging the importance of founding an experimental Zoological Station in the Tropics, and advocating the claims of Trincomalee in Ceylon for such an Institution. The following papers were read :- 1. Descriptions of new Species of Shells from New South Wales, N e w Guinea, the Caroline and Solomon Islands. By EDGAR A. SMITH, F.Z.S. [Received October 6, 1891.] (Plate XL.) The following species are based upon specimens which form part of a very valuable donation of shells from various localities, presented to the British Museum by Mr. John Brazier of Sydney, by whom the National Collection has over and over again been enriched with very many new and interesting forms of Mollusca and other branches of Zoology. Most of the specimens have been collected by Mr. Brazier himself, and consequently are accompanied by precise information respecting their localities. |