No. 51. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON* 



January 14th, 1908. 



Prof. J. Rose Bradford, M.D., D.Sc, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been 

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

 1907. 



Mr. W. P. Pycraft, F.Z.S., exhibited, on behalf of Mr. R. 

 Lydekker, F.R.S., F.Z.S., an abnormally marked Leopard-skin 

 from the Deccan, India, which had been presented to the British 

 Museum of Natural History by Mr. F. A. Coleridi. 



Dr. W. A. OuNNiNGTON gave an account of an expedition con- 

 ducted last spring, in conjunction with Mr. C. L. Boulengei", to 

 investigate the flora and fauna of the Birket el Qurun — the lake 

 Moeris of the ancients. The expedition was undei'taken on behalf 

 of the Egyptian Sui'vey Department, and one important result 

 was the discovery of a new lacustiine medusa. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas read a paper, the sixth of the series, on 

 mammals obtained in the Shantung Peninsula, N China, by 

 Mr. M. P. Anderson, for the Duke of Bedford's exploration of 

 Eastern Asia. ISTo mammals had come from this region since the 

 time of Consul Swinhoe, who had visited it in 1866-68. The 

 present series contained 106 specimens belonging to six species, 

 of which one was new. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., Prosector to the Society, read a 

 communication entitled " On the M vasculature and other Points 

 in the Anatomy of the Engystomatid Frog, Breviceps verrucosus." 



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