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Show 1895.] ON THE ANATOMY OP PIPA AMERICANA. 827 December 3, 1895. Sir W. H. ELOWER, K.C.B., LL.D., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions Society's Menagerie during the months of October and November 1895 :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of October was 112, of which 63 were by presentation, 24 by purchase, 1 by exchange, 2 were born in the Gardens, and 22 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 146. The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of November were 80 in number. Of these 41 were acquired by presentation, 30 by purchase, 2 were born in the Gardens, and 7 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 83. Amongst the additions, attention was c?Jled to the acquisition of a male specimen of the supposed new Wild Goat of the island of Giura, one of the Sporades, which had lately been described by Dr. Eeichenow of Berlin (Zool. Jahrb. vol. iii. p. 598, 1888) as a distinct species, under the name Capra dorcas. A communication was read from Dr. G. Stewardson Brady, P.E.S., containing a Supplementary Eeport on the Crustaceans of the group Myodocopa obtained during the * Challenger'Expedition. To this were added notes on other new or imperfectly known species of the same group. This paper will be published entire in the Society's - Transactions.' The following papers were read:- 1. On some Points in the Anatomy oi Pipa americana. By F R A N K E. B E D D A R D , M.A., F.R.S., Prosector to the Society, Examiner in Zoology to the University of Loudon. [Received October 1, 1895.] Through the kindness of Mr. Clarence Bartlett, I have been to dissect two specimens of the Surinam Toad (Pipa americana) which had been forwarded to him in spirit from British Guiana. They proved to be in an excellent condition for dissection. So far as I am acquainted with the literature relating to this Amphibian, |