No. 220. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



Octolber 18tli, 1921. 



Sir S. F. Harmbr, K.B.E., Sc.D., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a Report upon the Additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the months of June, July, August, 

 and September, 1921. 



Mr, M. A. 0. HiNTON exhibited, and made remarks upon, an 

 embryo African Elephant. 



Mr. E. G. BouLENGER, F.Z.S., exhibited, and made remarks 

 upon, photographs of a Common Grass-Snake swallowing a 

 Viper. 



Mr. F. Martin Duncan, F.Z.S., exhibited a series of cinemato- 

 graph films of Marine Animals, and asked the Society to accept 

 the series for its Zoological Film Library. 



Mr. D. Seth-Smith, F.Z.S., exhibited a series of photographs 

 of the Sacred Ibis nesting in the Society's Gardens, and said that 

 the last occasion on which the birds had bred in the Gardens was 

 in 1877, as recorded by the late Dr. P. L. Sclater in ' The Ibis ' 

 (1878, ser. 4, vol. ii. p. 449). 



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