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ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



April 23rd, 1907. 

 Dr. J. EosE Bradford, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



. The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been 

 made to the Menagerie in March 1907. 



Dr. A, Smith "Woodward, F.R.S., exhibited an antier of a 

 Red Deer which had become malformed and enlarged by disease. 

 The specimen was obtained by Mr. Thomas Sheppard from a 

 prehistoric peat-deposit at Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire. 



Mr. R. I. PocoCK exhibited, on behalf of the Seciretary, a model 

 of the African Elephant " Jumbo," formerly living in the Society's 

 Menagerie, made by the late Mr. William Prehn and presented to 

 the Society by his widow. 



Mr. R. Lydekker, F.R.S., read a paper on the ears of the 

 African Elephant as a race character, to illusti-ate which a lai'ge 

 number of photographs and several specimens were exhibited. 

 The author considered that there must be many more local races 

 than those already named by Dr. Matschie, although, with the 

 present material, he hesitated to give separate designations to 

 several of these. He ventured, however, to propose new names 

 for the Elephant of the eastern side of Cape Colony ; for that of 

 Mashonaland, as typified by a head in the Imperial Institute ; for 

 that of the Lake Rudolf district, as i-epresented by a head pre- 

 sented to the British Museum by Mr. H. S. H. Cavendish ; and 

 for the Somali Elephant, as typified by a head in the collection 

 of S.A.R. le Due d'Orleans at Wood Norton, this last race 

 being characterised by the very small ears, which, however, were 

 quite different in shape fi-om those of E, a. knochenhai(srL 



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