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Show 430 MR. J. S. BUDGETT ON THE [May 8, Nyasa in December 1898, during the journey from the Cape to Cairo, of which Mr. Grogan had lately given an account to tbe Royal Geographical Society (see ' Geographical Journal,' xvi. p. 164). Mr. Grogan had been informed of the existence of a herd of four of these animals on the Songwe, and on proceeding to the spot indicated by his informant, had succeeded in shooting the present specimen, which he met with while grazing in a patch of grass near the river. Mr. Grogan had been told that a similar animal had been seen at Fort Johnston at the south end of the Lake, and that a specimen had likewise been met with on the shores of Lake Nyasa about 40 miles from its north end. Altogether Mr. Grogan had heard of eight specimens of this animal. Mr. C. Davies Sherborn, F.Z.S., called attention to the progress of his ' Index Animalium,' commenced in 1889, which would contain an alphabetical list of all names used in Zoology from 1758 to 1900. The first portion, now approaching completion, was that for the years 1758 to 1800 inclusive. This part would contain about 60,000 entries ; the whole of the slips were already in alphabetical order, and had had the duplicate entries eliminated. About six months' more work would be required to check the generic names. Mr. Sherborn, who is the Recorder under the British Association Committee, stated that he had been able to purchase no less than 250 volumes dealing with systematic zoology and dated before 1800, copies of which were not previously to be found in England. All of these volumes had now been incorporated in the Libraries of public institutions in this country. Some of these volumes were unique, and most of them of considerable rarity. Mr. R. Lydekker called attention to the following misprint in the notice of his exhibition of the head of a Swamp-Deer (P. Z. S. 1899, p. 829), where the word ' Thameny ' in the bottom line should read ' Thameng '; also to an error in the lettering of the plate in his paper on " The Dental Formula of the Marsupial and Placental Carnivora," where in fig. 4, "pp. 2 " should be read " mp. 2." A paper was read by Mr. J. S. Budgett, F.Z.S., " O n some Points in the Anatomy of Polypterus," of which the following is an abstract:- Having obtained a large amount of material of both the species of Polypterus found in the Gambia, iu the spring of 1899, I thought it advisable to attempt to fill up some gaps in our knowledge of the anatomy of this most interesting of fishes. Though much work has been done by many zoologists in this direction, there are many points in which the descriptions already |