No. 222, 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



Noveinl)er 22iid, 1921. 



Prof. E. W. MacBride, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair, 



Mr. A. S. Le Souef, O.M.Z.S., exhibited, and made remarks- 

 upon, a series of lantern-slides illustrating the early life-histoiy 

 of Ornithorhynchus. 



Dr. A. Smith ■Woodward, F.R.S., Y.P.Z.S., exhibited, and 

 made remarks upon, a Human Skull and other remains from 

 Broken Hill, North Rhodesia, upon which he had founded th& 

 sjDecies Homo rhodesiensis. In comparing the Rhodesian skull 

 with a Neanderthal skull from La Chapelle, Dr. Smith Woodward 

 stated that the former may prove to be the next grade after 

 Neanderthal in the ascending' series. 



With the consent of the Author, the communication of 

 Mr. C. W. Hobley's paper on " The Fauna of East Africa and 

 its Future,'' was postponed. 



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