PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 16, 1894. 



Sir W. H. Floweb, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the mouth of December 1893 : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of December 1893 were 62 in number. Of these 29 were 

 acquired by presentation, 15 by purchase, 7 were born in the 

 Gardens, and 1 1 were received on deposit. The total number of de- 

 partures during the same period, by death and removals, was 91. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a coloured drawing of the head of Cerco- 

 piiliecus erythrogaster taken from the specimen of that Monkey in 

 the Paris Museum, and read an extract from a letter addressed to 

 him (enclosing it) by M. E. de Pousargues (Preparateur au Labora- 

 toire de Mammalogie au Museum, 55 Rue de Buff on). It appeared 

 that in the adult of this species the hairs on the nose are white, 

 and that the species should therefore probably be removed, in Mr. 

 Sclater's arrangement of the genus, to " Section A. O. rhinosticti " 

 (P. Z. S. 1893, p. 244), in the neighbourhood of O. petaurista. In 

 the type in the British Museum these hairs were blackish, but 

 there were indications of whitish at their bases, and the specimen 

 was probably young. 



The Secretary read the following extract from a letter addressed 

 Pboc. Zool. Soc— 1894, No. I. 1 



