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Show 990 MESSRS. B. C. A. WINDLE AND F. G. PARSONS ON [Dec. 19 late Dr. Arthur Cowell Stark, whose tragic death at Ladysmith Nov. 18th last had been recently reported. Dr. Stark, who had spent many years in different parts of South Africa, and had made its avifauna his special study, bad, it was believed, nearly completed a second volume containing the remaining families of the Passeres, the MS. of which Mr. Sclater had good reason to hope would be recovered. Mr. Sclater had himself completed an account of the Mammals, which was already in the printers' hands. Other volumes on the Eeptiles, Batrachians, Fishes, and some of the groups of Invertebrates would follow. The area embraced iu the ' Fauna of South Africa' would be that portion of the continent which lay south of the Zambesi and Cunene Eivers, and would contain the English Colonies of the Cape and Natal, Southern Rhodesia, the two Dutch Republics, and the adjoining German and Portuguese territories. Passing on specially to the Mammals of this area, Mr. Sclater pointed out that, so far as his present information went, about 236 species had been hitherto recorded within these limits, but that there could be no doubt that, especially among the smaller forms, a great many more species remained to be added to the list by future investigators. Mr. Sclater concluded his remarks by speaking about some of the older travellers and collectors to whom we are mostly indebted for our earliest knowledge of South African zoology. The following papers were read :- 1. On the Myology of the Edentata. By BERTRAM C. A. W I N D L E , D.Sc, M.D., M.A., F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy iu Mason University College, Birmingham, and F. G. PARSONS, F.R.C.S., Lecturer on H u m a n and Comparative Anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital, late Hunterian Professor in the Royal College of Surgeons, England. [Received November 9, 1899.] Part II.-MUSCLES OF THE HIND LIMB ; AND SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS RESPECTING T H E MUSCULATURE OF THE ORDER. The first part of this paper, dealing with the musculature trunk, head and neck, aud anterior limb, was read before this Society on March 7th, 1899 (cf. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1899, p. 314). For convenience of reference we again append the list of animals on the dissection of which our generalizations are founded. Tbe Arabic numerals before the name of each animal refer to the mention made of it in the text, whilst the Roman numerals following each name relate to the bibliography at the end of the paper. Where no such numeral is affixed it may be understood that we |