PROCEEDINGS 



OF TUK 



GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 1571895. 

 Dr. St. Geohgb Mivaet, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1894 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of December was 55, of which 34 were by 

 presentation, 1 by exchange, 12 by purchase, and 8 received on 

 deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, 

 bv death and removals, was 109. 



Mr. Sclater called attention to the two Tapirs deposited in the 

 Gardens by the Hon. W. Rothschild, F.Z.S., the female on 

 July 12th, 1893, and the male on Sept. 2, 1893, both entered in 

 the Register as Tapirus americanus. On further examination 

 Mr. Sclater had come to the conclusion that these animals were 

 probably referable to Dow's Tapir (Tapirus dowi), of Central 

 America, of which an excellent coloured figure had been given in 

 Godman and Salvin's ' Biologia Centrali-Americana,' Mammals, 

 pi. ix. p. 104. 



Mr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, F.Z.S., exhibited and gave an 

 account of a tibia and other bones of an extinct bird of the genus 

 JEpyornis from Central Madagascar, which had been leut to him 

 for exhibition by Mr. Joseph H. Fenn. With these bones was 

 associated a skull of a species of Hippopotamus. 



Professor G. B. Howes exhibited a photograph of an embryo 

 Pboc. Zool. Soc— 1895, No. I. 1 



