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Show 2 7 In a second paper Mr. L y d e k k e r described the skull of a Bruang, or Malay Bear, from Tibet, which he proposed to regard as representing a distinct race. In continuation of his paper on South-Indian Nudibranchs (Proc.Zool. Soc. 1906, pp. 636-691), Sir C h a r l e s E l io t , K.C.M.G., presented a supplementary account of the radulse of various species based on microscopic slides prepared by Alder and Hancock, which had just been discovered in the Hancock Museum at Newcastle on-Tyne. These slides confirmed many of the identifications suggested in the first paper, and in particular showed that Doris ylenei was a Chromodoris, and that Doris villosa was Thordisa maculigera Bgh. The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will be held on Tuesday, the 15th January, 1907, at half-past Eight o'clock p .m., when the following communications will be made:- 1. Mr. J. L ew is B o nh ot e , F.Z.S.-On a Collection of Mammals made by Dr. Vassal in Annam. 2. Mr. P. H. B a h r , F.Z.S.-On the " Bleating" or " Drumming " of the Snipe (Gallinago coelestis). (Illustrated with lantern-slides.) 3. Dr. E. A. G o e ld i , C.M.Z.S.-Some new and insufficiently-known Species of Marmoset Monkeys from the Amazonian Region. 4. Mr.F. E. B e d d a r d , F.R.S.-Contributions to the Knowledge of the Systematic Arrangement and Anatomy of certain Genera and Species of Squamata. The following Papers have been received :- 1. Dr. W. T. C a lm a n , F.Z.S.-On new or rare Cumacea from the Collection of the Copenhagen Museum. Part I. 2. Mr. G. H. K e n r ic k , F.Z.S.-A List of the Pyralidce, with Descriptions of new Species, collected by A. E. Pratt in British New Guinea in 1902-03. Communications intended for the Scientific Meetings of the Z oological S o cie t y of L ondon should be addressed to P. CHALMERS MITCHELL, Secretary. 3 H an ov er S q u a r e , L o ndon, W . December 18 th, 1906. |
