No. 24. 
ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON” 
December 12th, 1905. 
Howarp SauNDERS, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair, 
The Srcrurary read a report on the additions that had been 
made to the Society’s Menagerie during the month of November 
1905. 
The Secrerary also exhibited a coloured print, published by 
R. Ackermann in July 1812, of Polito’s Royal Menagerie at Exeter 
"Change, London. 
Mr. A. H. Cocks, F.Z.S., exhibited twelve enlarged photographs 
of Whales taken by him at the Finwhaling Factories in East 
Finmarken in 1883-89. The species represented were Megaptera 
longimana, Balenoptera sibbaldii, B. musculus, and B. borealis. 
Mr. Grorce P. Mupes, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks 
upon a Dog-fish with an apparently abnormal disposition of the 
digestive viscera, and an Earthworm with bifid tail. 
Mr. H. B. Fanruam, B.Sc., F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks 
upon a new Hemosporidian parasite from the blood of a white 
Rat. 
Mr. Ouprietp Tuomas, F.R.S., exhibited the tail-vertebre of a 
Dormouse of the genus Hliomys, which showed the phenomenon, 
hitherto unrecorded among Mammalia, of the regeneration of a 
bony structure in case of accident. 
The caudal vertebra, in this case the twelfth, which had been 
originally broken across, had grown out into a slender styliform 
appendix, 15 mm. in length, and rather less than | mm. in 
diameter, the normal vertebre of this part of the tail measuring 
about 6 X 2 mm, 
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