No. 55. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.^ 



March 17th, 1908. 



Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., Yiee- 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 February 

 1908. 



Mr. G. A. BouLENGER, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., exhibited a remarkably 

 malformed ^Isiice {Fleuronectes platessa) irora the London market, 

 which had been given him by the Secretary of the Fishmongers' 

 Company. One of the most striking peculiarities of the specimen 

 was that the colouring and scaling of the two sides of the tail 

 were exactly alike and similar to the normal condition of the 

 coloured side. Mr. Boulenger suggested that the tail might be 

 a regeneration in which an ancestral condition had reappeared. 



Dr. Walter Kidd, F.Z.S., F.R.S.E., read a paper on " Some 

 Observations on the Efi'ects of Pressixre upon the Direction of 

 Hair in Mammals." This paper was a sequel to other com- 

 munications on the subject of the direction of hair, and consisted 

 chiefly of the observed effects of the pressure of harness on 

 certain regions of the coats of domestic horses. This pressure 

 was shown to prodiice reversed areas of hair, and it was held 

 that these results supported the view put forward in other papers 

 that changes in the arrangement of hair are due to mechanical 



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