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Show LIST OF CONTENTS. PART IL-1897. March 2, 1897. Page Mr. W . B. Tegetmeier, F.Z.S. Exhibition of a specimen of a Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) with elongated mandibles .. 297 Mr. Gambier Bolton, F.Z.S. An Account of a Visit to the Bird Islands in Saldanha Bay, South Africa 297 On the Growth of Hair upon the Human Ear, and its Testimony to the Shape, Size, and Position of the Ancestral Organ. By H. M. WALLIS. (Plates XIX.-XXII.) 298 March 16, 1897. . The Secretary. Report on tbe Additions to the Society's Menagerie in February 1897, and Note on the Irish Otter 311 Mr. A. Smith Woodward, F.Z.S. An Account of a Visit to South America made in order to examine the Fossil Vertebrates of that Country 311 Dr. R. H. Traquair, F.R.S. Exhibition of a specimen of the supposed fossil Lamprey (Pai'eospondylus gunnl) from the Old Red Sandstone of Caithness ...... 313 1. Note on the Affinities of Palceospondylus gunnl, Traq. In reply to Dr. Bashford Dean, of New York. By R. H. TRAQUAIR, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S , r 314 2. On a Collection of Mammals from North and North-west Australia. By R. COLLETT. (Plate XXIII.) 317 3. On a Collection of Earthworms from South Africa, belonging to the Genus Acanthodrilus. By F R A N K E. BEDDARD, M.A. F.R.S., &c 336 4. On the Distribution of Marine Mammals. By P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. (Plate XXIV.) 349 5. On the Species of Potamochcerus, the Bush-Pigs of the Ethiopian Region. By Dr. C. L FORSYTH MAJOR, C.M.Z.S. (Plates X X V . & XXVI.) .. . 359 April 6, 1897. The Secretary. Report on the Additions to the Society's Menagerie in March 1897 ...... The Secretary. Exhibition, on behalf of Mr. A. J. Lawford Jones, of a cinnamon-coloured variety of the Blackbird (Turdus merula) 370 1. On the Myology of the Terrestrial Carnivora.-Part I. Muscles of the Head, Neck, and Fore-Limb. By B. C. A. W I N D L E , M.A., M.D., D.Sc, Professor of Anatomy at Mason College, Birmingham, and F. G. PARSONS, F.R.C.S., F.Z.S., F.L.S., Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital 370 2. Note upon the Minute Structure of the Teeth of Notoryctes, By CHARLES S. TOMES MA. F.R.S ,409 3. The Blue Bear of Tibet, with Notes on the Members of tbe Ursus arctus Group By R LYDEKKER, F.R.S., F.Z.S. (Plate XXVII.) T........' 412 4. An Account of the Freshwater Fishes collected in Celebes by Drs. P. & F. Sarasin By G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S. (Plate XXVIIL) ,..........'..... 426 |