PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS 



OF TUB 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 23, 1900. 

 Dr. Albert GtJNTHEii, F.R.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 1899 : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month oE December 1899 were 69 in number. Of these 25 were 

 acquired by presentation and 11 by purchase, 2 were born in the 

 Gardens, and 31 were received on deposit. The total number of 

 departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 131. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a photograph of a young specimen of the 

 Rocky Mountain Wild Goat (Hcijiloceros montanus) now in cap- 

 tivity in British Columbia, which had been forwarded to him by 

 Dr. A. R. C. Selwyn, C.M.G., T.R.S., C.M.Z.S., and read a letter 

 from that gentleman kindly offering his assistance in obtaining 

 the specimen for the Society's Collection. It was stated to have 

 been captured on the loth June last by a shooting party near 

 Field, British Columbia. The mother was shot and the kid cap- 

 tured. It was then about a month old and weighed only 6 lbs. 

 On the 22nd December last it weighed 55 lbs. and had an excellent 

 winter coat, as was shown in the photograph. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a collection of Birds formed by Mr. Alfred 

 Sharpe, C.B., C.M.Z.S., during a recent journey from Zomba to the 

 Pkoc. Zool. Soc— 1900, No. I. 1 



