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LONDON. Zoological Society, June 9.—Prof. E. A. Minchin, vice-president, in the chair.—P. D. Montague: Report on the fauna of the Monte Bello Islands. The islands are barren limestone with a limited vegetation and some mangroves. The collections prove conclusively the entire dependence of the islands for their fauna on the neighbouring continent. Partial depopulations of the islands owing to drought are suggested, succeeded by repopulations by means of wind-borne forms from the south.—Dr. W. A. Cunnington: Parasitic Eucopepoda collected by the third Tanganyika Expedition in 1904–5. The collection consisted of a very small number of specimens, these forms being evidently much rarer than the Argulidæ, which are also external parasitic Copepods infesting fish.—Dr. F. E. Bedford: A new species of avian Cestodes and a further discussion of the paruterine organ in Otiditænia.—R. I. Pocock: The facial vibrissæ of mammalia. In all the principal orders of the class, with one or two exceptions, the following groups of vibrissæ are present in some genera:—Mystaciale on the upper lip, submental on the chin and lower lip, superciliary over the eyes, gonal on the cheeks, and interramal on the throat behind the symphysis of the jaw. Within the limits of the orders these tufts are present in the primitive genera, but more or fewer of them may be lost in the more specialised types. This fact, coupled with their prevalence in widely different types, points to the arrangement of the vibrissæ above indicated being exceedingly primitive.—R. I. Pocock: The feet and other external features of the Canidæ and Ursidæ. The paper dealt with the rhinaria, the facial vibrissæ, and the pads and interdigital integument of the feet in many of the genera of Canidæ and all the admitted genera of Ursidæ.—Dr. G. A. Boulenger: A second collection of batrachians and reptiles made by Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell in the Choco, Colombia.—D. M. S. Watson: Procolophon trigoniceps, a cotylosaurian reptile from South Africa.—A. W. Waters: Marine fauna of British East Africa and Zanzibar, from collections made by Cyril Crossland in the years 1901–2: Bryozoa—Cyclostomata, Cteno-stomata, and Endoprocta. Out of the twenty-four species from these three groups, four are new; and, as the species mentioned are all from 10 fathoms or under, it will not occasion surprise that the number of Cyclostomata is but small.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 93, 471–473 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093471a0
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