No. 218. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON;^ 



May 24th, 1931. 



Prof. E. 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 during the month of April, 1921. 



Miss L. E. Chebsman, F.E.S., exhibited, and made remarks 

 upon, a series of lantern-slides illustrating the habits in the 

 larval stage of the Hydropsychidse (Snare-building Caddis 

 Worms). 



Major Stanley S. Flower, F.Z.S., exhibited examples of three 

 species of Egyptian Jerboas — Jaculus jacidus, Jaculus orientalis, 

 and Scarturus tetradactylus, the latter being the first living 

 specimens ever brought to England ; and made remarks upon 

 the distribution of the three species in North Africa. 



Dr. C. W. Andrews, F.R.S,, F.Z.S., gave a restmie of his 

 paper " On the Skull of Dinotherium giganteum in the British 

 Museum." 



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