No. 42. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LOXDON.^ 



March 19th, 1907. 

 Dr. Hexry Woodward, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair, 



The Seceetary read a Report on the additions that had ber'P. 

 made to the Society's Menagerife during the month of February 

 1907. 



Mr. Herbert F. Standing read a paper, iUustrated by lantern- 

 slides and large series of photographs and specimens, on recently 

 discovered subfossil Prosimiee from Madagascai-, in which he dis- 

 cussed their affinities with extant Lemui'S and with the higher 

 Primates. The remains wereobtained in themuddybed of a swamp 

 formed by the blocking-up of the river Mazy by a lava-flow, at from 

 a few inches to 3 or 4 feet below the surface. They consisted of 

 a large number of skulls and limb-bones of Lemurs and Lemur- 

 like animals. This great amount of material enabled the author 

 to corroborate the view, previously put forward by Dr. Forsyth 

 Major, that the extinct Lemurs of Madagascar were, in many 

 respects, intermediate between existing Lemurs and Monkeys, 

 and to express his belief that the New World Monkeys and the 

 Lemuridse, as well as the Malagasy Indrisinse, had a common origin. 

 He also stated his opinion that, in view of the recent additions to 

 our knowledge of the Prosimias and of wdiat the present collection 

 revealed w^ith regard to their close relationship to the Apes, it 

 was not possible to separate the Primates, as hithei'to, into the 

 two suborders Lemuroidea and Anthropoidea. 



Dr. L. W^. Sambox, F.Z.S., read a paper on animal parasites, 

 and described three new species as follows : — 



Wellcomia mitchelli, gen. et sp. nov. 

 Habitat. Small intestine of Pedetes caffer. 



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