No. 56. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROOEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.^ 



April 7th, 1908, 



Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S,, Vice-President, 

 in tlie Chair. 



On behalf of Mr. Thomas Codringtox, Dr. A. Smith Wood- 

 ward, 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 Northern Rhodesia. The animal 

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

 showed no signs of attrition. 



Dr. 0. W. Andrews, F.R.S., F.Z.S. , exhibited a restored model 

 of the skull and mandible of Prozeioglodon atrox And. This 

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

 land Oreodonts. 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 Natural History. 



The Secretary exhibited a photograph of two young living 

 examples of the Forest-Pig of Central Africa {Hyloohoerus 

 meinertzhageni Thomas). The photograph had been taken by 

 Mr. T. J. Morson, of Limoru, who had obtained the pigs in the 

 Limoru and escarpment forest about 353 miles from Mombasa, at 

 an elevation of between seven and eight thousand feet. 



The Secretary stated that he had been informed by the High 



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