No. S44 . 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.' 



October 23rd, 1923. 



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

 in the Chair. 



Tlic Secuetahy reud a report on the Additions jiiade to tlie 

 Society's Menagerie during the months of June, July, Augusb, 

 and September, 1923. 



Dr. 0. W. Andrewes, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited, and made 

 remarks upon, an imperfect phalangeal bone belonging to one 

 of the curious clawed Perissodactyls, tlie Ancylopoda (Cbali- 

 cotheroidea). 



Mr. D. SETH-SMrni, F.Z.S. , exhibited, and made remarks upon, 

 a series of photographs of Lion cubs recently born in the Society's 

 Menagerie. Mr. Seth-Smith also exhibited some rare varieties 

 of the Black Mangabey Monkey, Cercocehus aterrimus. 



Dr. Carl Absolon exhibited a large series of drawings and 

 photographs of Cave Animals from the Balkans. 



Mr. E. A. SrAUL, B.Sc, F.Z.S., gave a resume of his experiments 

 on acceleration of metamorphoses of Frog-Tadpoles by injection 

 of Anterior-lobe Pituitary-gland Extract and Iodine. 



A paper on " Observations on the Development of the Sympa- 

 thetic Nervous System and Suprarenal Bodies in the Sparrow," 

 by A. SuBBA Rau.B.A., M.Sc, and P. H. Johnson, B.Sc, F.Z.S,, 

 was communicated by Mr. A. Subba Rau. 



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