PROCEEDINGS 



GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 19, 1897. 



Sir W. H. Flowee, 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 month of December 1896 : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of December 1896 were 177 in number. Of these 43 were 

 acquired by presentation, 2 by purchase, 3 were born in the 

 Gardens, 81 were received by exchange, and 48 on deposit. 

 The total number of departures daring the same period, by death 

 and removals, was 109. 



The Secretary exhibited a set of seven slightly enlarged photo- 

 graphs illustrating the mode in which the Rough-keeled Snake 

 {Dasypeltis scahra) swallows an egg. These had been taken from 

 a living specimen in the Society's Gardens (which had been 

 received April 21st, 1894, and died October 4th, 1896), by 

 Mr. R. F. Nesbit, by whom they had been presented to the 

 Society. The specimen from which the photographs had been 

 taken, measuring about 28 inches in length, was also exhibited. 



The Secretary also placed upon the table a specimen of the 

 Proc. Zool. Soc.— 1897, No. I. 1 



