No. 86 . 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON* 



February 6th, 1908. 



G. A. BouLENGER, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. Frederick Gillett, F.Z.S., exhibited a case of mounted 

 cubs of the Timber-Wolf {Ganis occidentalis) which he had 

 obtained in the Province of Keewatin, Canada. He remarked 

 that this wolf was scarce in that district, being seen only 

 occasionally in the winter and scarcely ever in the summer. 



Dr. C. W. Andrews, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks upon 

 some restored models of the skulls and mandibles of Mceritherium 

 and Palceomastodon. The models were prepared by Mr. F. O. 

 Barlow from the original specimens collected from the Upper and 

 Middle Eocene beds of the Fayum, Egypt, and now preserved in 

 the British Mviseum and the Geological Museum, Cairo. 



Dr. Walter Kidd, F.Z.S., exhibited lantern-slides of sections 

 of skin from the palmar and plantar surfaces of twenty-four 

 species of Mammals, and the plantar surfaces of seven species of 

 Birds, The functions of the papillary ridges and the papillary 

 layer of the corium in connection with the sense of touch were 

 alluded to. 



Dr. J. W, Jenkinson read a paper on the Histology and 

 Physiology of the Placenta in the Ungulata, and made the 

 following remarks : — ■ 



A recent examination of the histological structure of the 

 placenta in the Sheep and Cow has shown : 



(1) That in the formation of the accessory cotyledons of the Cow 

 the epithelium lining the cotyledonary crypts arises by 

 simple modification of the uterine epithelium. 



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