society.
'A meeting of the above Society was held at its rooms in the Upper Yuen-ming-yuen road on last Friday, when notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather a fair number of members assembled to hear a paper by Mr. A. A. Fanvel on the Alligators of China. Asno other business was before the meeting, the President, Mr. 'T. W. Kingsmill, at once called on Mr. Fauvel to. begin his reading, The author, who had been at pains to illustrate this, the latest accession to our knowledge of the geology of China, exhibited in addition to the stuffed alligator which has been for some months in the possession of the Society, a live specimen obtained in last October from Chinkiang, as well asa cranium and skeleton and a stuffed crocodile for comparison. The paper commenced with a philological dis-sortation on the names by which the saurians of China have been known ab
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.