No. 92. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; 



March 7th, 1911. 



Dr. A. Smith-Woodward, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



Mr. R. I. PococK, F.L.S., F.Z.S., exhibited, on behalf of 

 Mr. E. C. Oberholtzer, a large number of lantern-slides and 

 photographs illustrating the habits of Moose. Mr. Oberholtzer 

 had spent several months in the forested lakeland tributary to 

 Rainy Lake, Ontario, photographing and observing the habits of 

 Moose, and had presented to the Society the series of enlarge- 

 ments exhibited. 



The Secretary exhibited a series of lantern-slides prepared 

 from photographs kindly given to liim by Mr. Carl Hagenbeck, 

 Silver Medallist of the Society, and illustrating some of the most 

 remarkable features of Mr. Hagenbeck's new Tiei-park at Stellingen 

 near Hamburg. 



Dr. Karl Jordan, F.E.S., and the Hon. IST. Charles Roth- 

 schild, M.A., F.Z.S., F.E.S. , communicated a paper " On some 

 Siphonaptera from Northern China." This collection of Fleas 

 had been made by Mr. M. P. Andei^son, the Duke of Bedford's 

 collector, in the province of Shen-si, and contained altogether 17 

 species, of which no less than 13 were new. Some of these 



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