PROCEEDINGS 



GENERAL MEETINGS FOE SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(May to December, 1906.) 



May 1, 1906. 

 Dr. Hensy Woodward, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Ohaii'. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions that 

 had been made to the Society's Menagerie in March 1906 : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menageiie diu-ing the 

 month of March were 124 in number. Of these 52 were 

 acquired by presentation and 6 by purchase, 44 were received on 

 deposit, 12 in exchange, and 10 were born in the Gardens. The 

 total number of departures during the same period, by death and 

 removals, was 182. 



Amongst the additions special attention may be directed to : — 



A young female Gorilla {Anthropojyithecus gorilla) from Cape 

 Lopez, purchased on March 30th. 



A young male Lar Gibbon {Hylohates lar) and a Leopard Cat 

 {Felis hengalensis) from Perak, presented by the Perak State 

 Museum on March 31st. 



A ISTarrow-banded M.OTigoo&e{Gcdidictis '^;^i^ai{a) from Madagascar, 

 new to the Collection, deposited on March 1 2th. 



A female Eland {Taurotragus oryx), born in the Menagerie on 

 March 12th. 



A neto /Species of Duiker. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., exhibited the skin of a Duiker 

 which had been shot in Nyasaland by Mr. S. W. Frank, and 

 presented by him to the National Museum. • It proved to be a 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1906, No. XXXII. 32 



