No. 237. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



March 6th, 1923. 



Sir S. F. Harmer, K.B.E., F.R.S., Yice- President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a note from Mr. Caldwell of the Game 

 Warden's Office, Nairobi, on a case of apparent melanism in 

 Tippelskirch's Giraffe {Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi). 



Mr. R. I. PococK, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibted, and made remarks 

 upon, a series of drawings of the feet and spurs of the Echidna. 



In the absence of Sir G. Abercromby, Mr. R. I. PocoCK 

 exhibited the mounted head of a Kob from East Africa. 



Prof. E. W. MacBride, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited, and made 

 remarks upon, a series of photomicrographs of sections through 

 the nuptial callosities of Frogs of the genera Rana and Alytes. 



Mr. F. M.SwYNNERTON, C.M.Z.S., exhibited, and made remarks 

 upon, the stomach-contents of a Crocodile. 



Mr. H. G. Cannon, B.A., F.Z.S., communicated his paper " A 

 Note on the Zoaea of the Land-Crab, Cardisoma armatuTn." 



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