PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS 



OP THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 17, 1899. 

 Dr. Albekt GiJNTHER, F.E.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1898 : — 



The total number of registered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the month of December was 80, of which 20 were by 

 presentation, 1 by exchange, 19 by purchase, 35 were received on 

 deposit, and 5 were born in the Menagerie. The total number of 

 departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 97. 



Dr. F. P. Moreno exhibited and made remarks upon the 

 original specimen of the recently described mammal Neomylodon 

 listai, which he believed to be a portion of the skin of one of the 

 old Pampean Mylodons now quite extinct. 



Mr. Sclater read some extracts from letters recently received 

 from Mr. J. S. Budgett, F.Z.S., who had been sent by the Council 

 on a scientific mission to the Gambia (see P. Z. S. 1898, p. 852). 



Mr. Budgett had arrived at M'Carthy's Island, 127 miles up 

 the river, on Nov. 11, and up to the date of his last letter 

 (Dec. 8) had been principally occupied in collecting Fishes. He 

 had obtained a large number oE Folypteri of different sizes, the 



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