No. 19. 
ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
May 2nd, 1905. 
Dr. W. T. Buanrorp, C.I.E., F.R.S., Vice-President, 
in the Chair. 
The Secretary exhibited three large photographs, presented 
to the Society by Mr. Howard B. Turner, of Hippopotamuses 
swimming in a river in their native haunts. 
Mr. R. BE. Houprne exhibited and made remarks on a series of 
antlers, of the first year, of the Roebuck, Red-Deer, Fallow- Deer, 
and Wapiti. 
Mr. R. I. Pocock, F.Z.8., exhibited and made remarks on a 
specimen of the Spanish Tarantula, Lycosa hispanica, that had 
died in the Society’s Gardens. 
Mr. W. Barsson, F.R.S., exhibited a series of specimens of 
domestic chicks to illustrate peculiarities in the hereditary 
transmission of white plumage. 
Mr. Grorce R. Atrorp communicated a paper by Prof. EK. A. 
Mincuin entitled “On JLeucosolenia contorta (Bowerbank), 
Ascandra contorta Haeckel, and Ascetéa spinosa Lendenfeld.” 
The author pointed out that the nomenclature of the Calcarea 
Homocela was in a more tangled state than that of any other 
group of the animal kingdom, with, perhaps, the exception of the 
malarial parasites. Dr. Bowerbank, who founded the species, 
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