No. 91. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDmGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



February 21st, 1911. 



Dr. A. Smith Woobward, F.R.S., Yice- President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



The Secretary read a Report on the additions that had been 

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

 1911. 



Mr. A. Heneage Cocks, F.Z.S., exhibited a series of photo- 

 graphs of the female Brindled Gnu recently born in the Society's . 

 Gardens, and gave a brief account of its growth and coloration. 



Dr. H. Hammond Smith, M.R.C.S., F.Z.S,, exhibited three 

 skins of male Pheasants assuming female plumage, sent to him 

 by Mr, Arthur Gilbey, and some microscopical specimens of the 

 glands prepared by Dr, S. G, Shattock. 



Dr. H. G. Plimmer, F.R.S., F.Z.S., Pathologist to the Society, 

 reported on the Deaths which had occurred in the Zoological 

 Gardens during the past year, and illustrated his i-emarks with 

 a large series of lantern-slides, prepared from pathological material 

 obtained in the course of his work at the Gardens. 



Mr. R. Lydekker communicated a short paper on Tragelaplms 

 huxtoni, an Antelope obtained by Mr. Ivor Buxton in Abyssinia. 



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