No. 241. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



May 8th, 1923. 



Dr. A. Smitu Woodward, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary exhibited, and made remarks npon, a series 

 of photographs of Big Game from Choma, North llhodesia. 



. Miss L. E. CuEBSMAN, F.E.S., F.Z.S., exhibited, and made 

 upon, (1) living specimens of Feripatus from Trinidad, and 

 (2) a section of a nest of the Sbingless Bee from Australia. 



Mr. F. Martin Duncan, F.Z.S., gave a resume of a paper 

 by Mr. H. Burrell, C.M.Z.S., "Note on a Hibernating Female 

 Specimen of the Marsupial Acrohates pi/gmceus." 



Mr. F. Martin Duncan, F.Z.S., gave an account of some 

 of the results of his recent work on the microscopic structure of 

 Mammalian hairs, with especial reference to the hairs of the 

 Primates, and illustrated his I'emarks with a series of photo- 

 micrographs taken to demonstrate the character of the cuticular 

 Scales. 



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 to all Follows who fubfcnbe to tlio Publications; but it may bo obtained on tlio 

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