No. 97. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.^ 



May 23rd, 1911. 



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

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed^ 



The Secretary read a Report on tiie Additions that had been 

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

 1911. 



Prof. Arthur Dexdy, D.Sc, F.R.S., F.Z.S., communicated a 

 paper by Dr. J. Stuart Thomson on the Alcyonaria of the Cape 

 of Good Hope and Natal. The author dealt exclusively with the 

 order Gorgonacea, and recorded nineteen species, of which six 

 were described as new. 



A paper entitled " Tooth-Gei"ms in the Wallaby {Macropus 

 hillardieri)" was presented by Dr. A. Hopewell Smith, M.R.C.S., 

 L.R.C.P., and Dr. H. W. Marett Tims, M.A., F.Z.S., F.L.S. 



The material upon which their observations were based had been 

 kindly sent to the aiithors by Mr. Brooke Nicholls, of Melbourne. 

 It consisted of three embryos of Macropus hillardieri. The 

 smallest specimen (allowing for the difference in size of the adults 

 of different species) was considerably younger than that of any 

 other Diprotodont previously examined. In the upper jaw they 

 had identified six incisors, thus confirming M. F. Woodward's 

 original statement. The functional incisors of the adult appeared 

 to be the 2nd, 4th, and 6th of the series. There were four 



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