No. 90. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.^ 



February 7th, 1911. 



Prof. E. A. MixcHiN, MA., Vice-President, 

 ill the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



The Secretary read a Report on the additions that liad been 

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

 1910. 



Dr. C, VV. Andrews, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited a skull of a 

 Sabre-toothed Tiger (Smilodon californicus) from an asphalt 

 deposit in California, and pointed to anatomical characters which 

 tended to prove that the animal used its large canines for stabbing 

 and tearing, not for biting. 



The Secretart exhibited a mounted specimen of the Platypus, 

 which had been lent for the purpose by Mr. P. St. Michael 

 Podmore, F.Z.S. 



Mr. Edward Gerrard exhibited the head of a Caribou, shot 

 by Sir John Rogers, K.O.M.G., in British Columbia, which had 

 a distinct third antler over the centre of the orbital arch of the 

 frontal bone. There was a slight burr on a level with the skin, 

 but no pedicle. It had the appearance as if it could be shed in 

 the same manner as the normal antlers. 



A very fine Eland head, obtained by Major Gordon on the 

 Bahr-el-G hazel, and three fine heads of White-tailed Deer were 

 also exhibited, one pair of antlers being abnormal. 



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