No. 240. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



April 24tli, 1923. 



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

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a Report on the Additions to the Society's 

 Menagerie during the month of March 1923. 



Capt. R. B. Murray, F.G.S., F.R.G.S., exhibited, and made 

 remarks upon, mounted and living specimens of a giant Centipede 

 from Trinidad. 



Lt.-Col. S. MoNCKTON Copeman, M.D., F.R.S., F.Z.S., and 

 Major E. E. Austen, D.S.O., F.Z.S., exhibited, and made 

 remarks upon, photographs and specimens of an unique British 

 Dipteron, taken on Primrose Hill. 



Ba,ron F. Nopcsa gave a resume of his paper " On the Origin 

 of Flight in Birds." 



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