No. 195. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



June 17th, 1919. 



Prof. E. W. MacBkide, F.R.S., F.Z.S., Yice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



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

 Menagerie during the month of May, 1919. 



Mr. J. T. Carter, F.Z.S., gave a resume of his paper on the 

 " Occui'rence of Denticles on the Snout of Xiphias." 



Miss L. E. Cheesman, F.E.S., exhibited some living specimens 

 of Light-giving Beetles fi-om Cuba. 



Dr. C. W. Andrews, F.E..S,, F.Z.S., commu.nicated his paper 



on " New Species of Zeuglodons and a Leathery Turtle from the 

 Eocene of Southern Nigeria." 



Mr; Edward Heron-Allen, F.R.S., F.Z.S., described the ex- 

 periments he had been carrying out in collaboration with Mr. 

 Arthur Earland, F.R.M.S., on the cultivation of Verneuilma 

 polystropha Reuss in hypertonic sea-water and gem sand, and 

 illustrated his remarks with a series of lantern-slides. 



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