240 Talw onto graphical Society — Zoological Society. 



The Coimtil elected for the ensuing year is as follows : — 



Officers :— President : Professor W. J. Sollas, Sc.D., LL.D., F.E.S. Vice- 

 Tresidcnts : Frederick AV. Eudler, I.S.O. ; Aubrey Strahau, Sc.D., F.R.S. ; 

 J. J, H. Teall, M.A., D.Sc. F.R.S. ; and A. Smith Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S. 

 Secretaries : Professor E. J. Garwood, M.A. ; and Professor W. W. Watts, M.A., 

 M.Sc, F.E.S. Foreign Secretary : Sir Archibald Geikie, K.C.B., D.C.L., Sc.D., 

 LL.D., Sec. U.S. Trcamrer : Horace W. Monckton, Treas.L.S. 



Ordinarii Members of Council : Professor S. 11. Cox, F.C.S. ; Alfred Harker, M.A. , 

 F.R.S. ; W. H. Hudlestou, M.A., F.R.S.; F. L. Kitchin, M.A., Ph.D. ; GeorgeW. 

 Lamplugh, F.R.S. ; Richard Lydekker, B.A., F.R.S. ; Professor Henry A. Miers, 

 M.A., F.R.S. ; Richard Di.KOu Oldham ; Professor Sidney Hugh Reynolds, M.A. ; 

 Leonard J. Spencer, M.A. ; Charles Fox Strangways ; Richard H. Tiddeman, M.A. ; 

 Henry Woods, M.A. ; and George William Young. 



II. — Pal^joxtographical Society. — The sixty-lirst annual meeting 

 of the Palseontographical Society was held on March 20th, in the 

 Geological Society's rooms, Burlington House, W., Dr. Henry 

 "Woodward, F.R.S., President, in the chair. The annual report 

 alluded to the unusually varied contents of the volume for 1907. It 

 provides indexes and title-pages for several monographs completed 

 or discontinued. The Council favoured the plan of publishing 

 smaller works ; the current volume included a complete Monograph 

 of British Conularia, by Miss Ida L. Slater, with five plates drawn 

 by the authoress. Losses in membership by death had scarcely been 

 repaired during recent j'ears, and the Council welcomed a contribution 

 from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, which 

 provided five plates of Scottish Carboniferous Fishes, described by 

 Dr. Traquair. Mrs. G. B. Longstaff, Mr. H. A. Allen, Dr. F. A. 

 Bather, and Mr. William Hill were elected new members of Council, 

 and Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., President, Dr. G. J. Hinde, 

 F.R.S., Treasurer, and Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., Secretary. 



III. — Zoological Society of London. — April 1th, 1908. Dr. Henry 

 Woodward, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



On behalf of Mr. Thomas Codrington, Dr. A. Smith Woodward, 

 F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited a collection of 168 stones, weighing 

 altogether 7 lbs. 13 oz., taken from the stomach of an elejDhant 

 shot by Mr. H. Thornicroft in Northern Rhodesia. The animal was 

 a large male, with tusks weighing 45 lbs. each. The stones showed 

 no signs of attrition.^ 



Dr. C. W. Andrews, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited a restored model of 

 the skull and mandible of Prozetiglodon atrox, And.- This animal is 

 one of the links uniting the true Zeuglodonts with the land Creodonts. 

 It is found in the Middle Eocene of Egypt, where also the earlier 

 type, Protocetus, was discovered \)\ Fraas at a somewhat lower 

 horizon. The model was constructed by Mr. F. 0. Barlow for the 

 British Museum of Natural History. 



1 The habit of swallowing stones to assist the gizzard in digestion is common to all 

 birds ; crocodiles also are found to follow the same practice. Stones have likewise 

 been found within the ribs of several fossil marine reptiles. Although stones had 

 more than once been found in the stomachs of elephants, these mammals do not 

 require such artificial aids to digestion ; it therefore seems to imply a depraved 

 taste on the part of the individual and not a normal healthy practice. 



• See ante, pp. 209-212 and Plate IX. 



