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Show 136 MR. O. THOMAS ON THE [Feb. 20, mere vaguely defined blotches, comparatively far apart from each other. These differences were well seen on a comparison of the figure given by Harris of the Southern Giraffel with those given by Buppell2 and Brehm3 of the Northern one. Prof. Sundevall had already noticed the difference in the general colour of the two animals, and had given to the Northern form the varietal name of Camelopardalis giraffa, var. cethiopica4. A communication was read from Dr. E. W . Shufeldt, C.M.Z.S., giving particulars of the methods used in preparing certain Invertebrates, which were adopted by the experts at the U.S. National Museum, in the case of specimens sent to Chicago for exhibition at the World's Columbian Exposition. This communication was illustrated by photographs of the objects in question. After the preparation of finished moulds of these objects, gelatine casts were made from the moulds, the gelatine being made of the following composition : - Best Irish Glue 4 oz. Gelatine (photographers').... 2 „ Glycerine 4 ,, Boiled Linseed-oil | „ The gelatine casts were then coloured to resemble the objects in life. The following papers were read :- 1. On the Mammals of Nyasaland : third Contribution. By OLDFIELD THOMAS, F.Z.S. [Received February 13, 1894.] The present paper contains an account of the third and fourth collections of Mammals made and presented to the National Museum by Mr. H . H . Johnston, C.B., Consul-General for British Central Africa, with the help of his able assistant, Mr. Alexander Whyte, F.Z.S. Papers on the two previous collections have already been published5. The series now described bears out the prophecy I ventured to make in 1892, that as Mr. Whyte's knowledge of the locality increased he would be able to obtain the rarer and more local species, and that among these there would certainly be some 1 ' Wild Animals of S. Africa,' pi. xi. (1840). J Atlas Reise N. Afr. pi. viii. (1826). 3 ' Thierleben,' iii. p. 188 (1880). 4 " Pecora," K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, p. 175. 5 P. Z. S. 1892, p. 546 ; and 1893, p. 500. |
