Abstract
THE collections of natural history lately forwarded to the British Museum by Dr. Emin Pasha, from Central Africa, will be described at the meeting of the Zoological Society on January 17. The specimens have been determined by various experts in the different branches of natural history to which they belong. Mr. Oldfield Thomas has prepared a paper on the mammals, amongst which are examples of a remarkable new species of Hyrax. Captain Shelley will contribute a paper on the series of birds, which also embraces several new forms. The Lepidoptera have been worked out by Mr. A. G. Butler, and contain specimens of thirteen butterflies new to science, Mr. Edgar A. Smith has examined the fresh-water shells which Dr. Emm Pasha obtained on the Lake Albert Nyanza. They are referable to five species only, but three of these, as might have been expected from the novel locality in which they were obtained, appear to be new to science.
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Notes . Nature 37, 207–210 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037207a0
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