No. 246. 



ABSTRACT OF THIi: rilOOEKDINGS 



ZOOLOGICAL SDGIETr OF LONDON/ 



November 20th, 1923. 



Dr. A. Sjhtii Woodward, F.R.S., "Vice-President., 

 in the Chair. 



Tlie Seciietaiiy read a Report on tho Additions to the Society's 

 Menagerie during the month of October, 1923. 



The Secretary exliibited an autograph letter of Sir Stamford 

 Ilaflles, one of the principal founders of the Society, which had 

 been presented by Mr, Cosmo Bevan, and a collection of auto- 

 graphs of IGl Naturalists, including the first President, Treasurer, 

 and Secretary of the Society, presented by Mr. Hugh S. Glad- 

 stone, F.Z.S. 



Sir Stamford Raffles' letter was dated August 13, 1821, and 

 was written to Sir Everard Home. It announced the dispatch 

 of the head of an elephant, preserved in alcohol, stated that the 

 Babirussa, then believed to have a wider disti'ibution, was 

 restricted to Celebes and Moluccas, and discussed other matters 

 of zoological interest. 



In Mr. Gladstone's gift there were included autographs of 

 H. W. Bates, the Naturalist of the ' Amazon,' de Blainville, 

 Bleeker, Francis Day, Sir Joseph Hooker and his father (Sir 

 William Hooker), D. W. Mitchell, Secretary of the Society 1847- 

 1859, and Temminck. 



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