1908.] ON THE CENTRAL AFRICAN FOREST-PIG. 203 



April 7, 1908. 



Dr. Henry Woodward, F.K.S., Yice-President, 

 in the Chair. 

 On behalf of Mr. Thomas Codrington, Dr. A. Smith Woodward, 

 F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited a collection of 168 stones, weighing 

 altogether 7 lbs. 13 oz., taken from the stomach of an Elephant 

 shot by Mr. H. Thornicroft in ISTorthern Rhodesia. The animal 

 was a large male, Avith tusks weighing 45 lbs. each. The stones 

 showed no signs of attrition. 



Dr. C. W. Andrews, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited a restored model 

 of the skull and mandible of Prozeuglodon atrox And. This 

 animal is one of the links uniting the true Zeuglodonts with the 

 land Creodonts. It is found in the Middle Eocene of Egypt, 

 where also the earlier type, Protocetus, was discovered by Fraas 

 at a somewhat lower horizon. The model was constructed by 

 Mr. F. O. Barlow, for the British Museum of jSTatvu^al History. 



The Secretary exhibited a photograph of two young living 



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Young Forest- Pigs {Hylochoerus mevnertzliageni). 



examples of the Forest-Pig of Central Africa {Eylochceriis 



