184 PROF. G. ELLIOT SMITH ON EXAMPLES 



February 22nd, 1921. 



Sir S. F. Harmer, K.B.E., F.R.S., Vice President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following Report on the Additions to 

 the Society's Menagerie dining the month of January 1921 : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during 

 the month of January were 122 in number. Of these 49 Avere 

 acquired by presentation, 64 were deposited, ctnd 9 were 

 purchased. 



The following may be specially mentioned : — 



1 American Bison (JBison americayius), J ■, bred at Woburn, 

 deposited by The Duke of Bedford, K.G., on Januai-y 28th. 



1 Dromedary [Camelus dromedarms), c? , from Mogador, 

 Morocco, purchased January 31st. 



1 Verreaux's Amethyst-Starling {Philodauges leucon aster ver- 

 reawii), from Durban, South Africa, new to the Collection, 

 presented by Harold Millar on January 15th. 



1 Sundevall's Seed-eater [Serinus scotops), from South Africa, 

 new to the Collection, purchased on January 21st. 



Prof. G. Elliot Smith, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited a series of 

 photographs of a living example of Tarsius, and said : — 



The accompanying photographs of a living Tarsius, taken by a 

 Chinese boy at Kuching, Sarawak, have just been received from 

 Mr. W. E. Le Gros Clark, who went out to Borneo last autumn 

 to take up the position of medical officer at Kuching. Dr. Charles 

 Hose tells me that the usual and characteristic attitude of Tarsius 

 is that shown in these pictures, but during his long period of 

 service in Sarawak he was unable to get any satisfactory photo- 

 graphs of this singularly elusive ci-eature. Hence we owe 

 Mr. Le Gros Clark our deepest gratitude for making us familiar 

 with the somewhat unexpected appearance of this svirviving 

 member of the Eocene family from which our own Simian an- 

 cestors were derived. 



Before he left for Borneo last autumn, I asked Mr. Le Gros 

 Clark to collect all the information he could get of the habits of 

 Tarsius and Tupaia, to secure photographs of the living animals, 

 and obtain the material for anatomical and embryological research 

 on these important genera. Moreover, I specially impressed 

 upon him the importance of studying the retina of living or 

 freshly-killed examples of Tarsius for the purpose of determining 

 whether or not a macula lutea was present. 



Immediately upon his arrival at Kuching, Mr. Le Gros Clark 

 was able to secure the two photographs reproduced here, and also 

 the fresh corpse of an adult female (? pregnant), which he has 



