No. 34. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON* 



June 19th, 1908. 



Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a Beport on the additions that had been 

 made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of May 

 1906. 



Dr. W. T. Calman, F.Z.S., exhibited, on behalf of Dr. A. Duges, 

 C.M.Z.S., a specimen of the Crustacean Palcemon jamaicensis 

 Herbst, from the Atoyac River, Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



Dr. Calman also exhibited a photograph of a Lobster with 

 abnormal chelee. 



Dr. C. G. Seligmann, F.Z.S., the Society's Pathologist, exhibited 

 and made remarks upon the heart of a Tiger that had died in 

 the Society's Menagerie. 



Dr. Seligmann also exhibited some feathers from the tail of a 

 cock Pheasant which were gradually assuming the pattern of the 

 feathers of the hen bird. 



Mr. W. Saville Kent, F.Z.S. , exhibited a series of lantern- 

 slides, ta,ken from photographs in natural colours, illustrating the 

 Fish and associated fauna of the Polynesian Coral Reefs. 



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