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OctoberS, 1833. 



N. A. Vigois, Esq., in the Chair. 



A letter was read, addressed to Ihe Secretaiy by W. A. Wooler, 

 Esq., and giving an account of a wild Dog from the Mahablishvvar 

 Hills, now knovvn as Malcolm's Pate, in the Presidency of Bombay : 

 jts local name is Dhale. The habits of thisDo^, in a statė of natuie, 

 are described by Mr. WooIer : they accoid with those of the Būansu 

 of Nepal, as detailed by Mr. Hodgson in a paper read at the previous 

 Meeting of the Society. 



A specimen was exhibited of the hairless Egyptian variety of the 

 familiar Dog, which had recently died at the Society 's Gardens. 

 The exhibition was made principally vvith the vievv of illustrating 

 the apparent connexion betvveen teeth and hair. In this animal, 

 so remarkable for its deficiency of hair, a corresponding deficiency 

 of teeth was observed ; there being neither incisors nor canines in 

 either jaw, and the molars being reduced to one on each side, the 

 large tubercular tooth being the only one remaining. 



Mr. Yarrell stated in further illustration of the subject, that he 

 had examined the mouths of two individuals of the šame variety 

 still living at the Gardens, in both of which he found the teeth re- 

 raarkably deficient. In neither of them were there any falše molarsj 

 one was entirely destitute of canines also, these teeth being in the 

 other short of the usual number ■ and the incisors were also in both 

 deficient in number. 



He also exhibited from bis collection the cranium of a hairless 

 Terrier, in which the falše molars were wanting. 



A letter was read addressed to the Secretary by M. Savi, For. 

 Memb. Z. S., and dated Pisa, July 22, 1833. lt accompanied a col- 

 lection of the works of the vv^riter, vvhich he presented to the Society, 

 together with specimens of most of the zoological objects vvhich he 

 had added to science. These specimens were exhibiied. 



In bringing them severally under the notice of the Society, the 

 Secretary continually referred to those writings of M. Savi which 

 related to them, and explained from thence the most interesting par- 

 ticulars connected with each of the specimens submitted. 



A collection of skins of Mammalia, obtained from the Frankfort 

 Museum, was exhibited. The whole of them vvere from Abyssinia, 

 where they were procured by M. Riippell, in the ' Zoological Atlas' 

 of whose ' Travels in Northern Africa' many of them vvere for the 

 first time described and figured. They included thirteen species nevv 

 to the Society's collection, arid were severally brought under the no- 

 tice of the Meeting by the Secretary. 



No. X. Pkoceedings of the Zoological Society. 



