No. 27. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



Pebniary 20l;li, 1906. 



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

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a Report on the additions that liad been 

 made to the Menagerie during the month of January 1906, and 

 called special attention to a Snow-Leopard {Felis tmcia) presented 

 by Major A. H. Hussey, R.H.A., an Aard Wolf {Proteles 

 cristatus), purchased, and a Salt-Marsh Oavy {JDolichotis scdmicola), 

 received on deposit. 



The Sece,etary also read a letter from Ma,j.-Gen. Sir Reginald 

 Talbot, K.C.B., Governor of Victoria, giving an account of the 

 supposed breeding of a mule. An illustration of the dam and 

 foal from ' The Australasian ' accompanied the letter. 



Mr. R. I. PococK, the Superintendent of the Gardens, exhibited 

 a photograph of a Ring-tailed Lemur (Lemur catta) carrying its 

 young on its back. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited a new 

 drawing of the skeleton of the Triassic Rhynchocephalian, Rhyacho- 

 saurus articejys, from the Keuper Sandstone of Shropshire. He 

 pointed out the differences between this ancient reptile and the 

 modern Siohenodon, especially noting the great expansion of its 

 coi-acoids and ischia, and the probably diminutive size of its 

 sternum. He inferred from the everted rims of the upwardly- 

 turned orbits, and from the sigmoidal bend of the femur, that 

 lihynchosauriis was to a great degree aquatic in habit. 



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