No. 192. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



April 39th, 1919. 



Prof. Ernest W. MacBride, D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the Additions to the Society's 

 Menagerie in the month of May, 1919. 



Mr. T. Gerrard, F.Z.S., exhibited and drew attention to some 

 special points of interest in a series of heads of Waterbuck 

 {Kohus), collected by Dr. Digby. 



Dr. W. T. Calman, D.Sc, F.Z.S., exhibited and gave a de- 

 tailed account of various Marine Boring Animals, drawing atten- 

 tion to the economic importance of the scientific investigation of 

 such forms of Marine Animals in relation to the serious damage 

 caused by them to the timbers of wooden ships and to piers, and 

 to the masonry of breakwaters and similar constructions. 



The Secretary read a communication, illustrated by lantern- 

 slides, from Mr. Geo. Jentnison, on " A Chimpanzee in the Open 

 Air in England," drawing attention to the fact that the animal 



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