No. 216. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



April 19tli, 1921. 



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

 in the Chair. 



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

 Menagerie dviring the month of March, 1921. 



Mr. E,. H. BuRNE, M.A., F.Z.S., exhibited, and made remarks 

 lapon, a series of mounted specimens of a young Flat Fish, 

 demonstrating various stages in the transference of the left eye 

 to the right side. 



Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, C.B.E., F.R.S., Secretary, read an 

 extract from a letter he had received from Mr. E. H. Bean, 

 Director of the Washington Park, Milwaukee, Wis., U.S.A.,, 

 describing the successful rearing of a Polar Bear Cub. 



Mr. 0. Davies Sherborn^, F.Z.S., exhibited a coin of the Saka 

 Dynasty (Punjab Region) of King Arzes (Ayasa), showing the 

 so-called " maneless lion " of Asia, about B.C. 30. This coin 

 belongs to the Bactrian Series, and is inscribed in Greek on one 

 side and in Pali on the other. 



Mr. F. Martin Duncan, F.Z.S., exhibited, and made remarks 

 ■upon, a series of lantern -slides of a remarkable nest of the Wasp 

 { Vesjja germanica). 



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