No. 77. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON* 



January 18th, 1910. 



Prof. J. Rose Bradford, M.D., D.Sc, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



The Secretary read a Report on the additions that had been 

 made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December 

 1909. 



Mr. C. W. Beebe, Curator of Birds of the New York Zoological 

 Society, exhibited a series of lantern-slides made from photographs 

 he had taken on a recent Natural History Expedition to British 

 Guiana. 



Mr. S. A. Neave, M.A., B.Sc, F.Z.S., communicated a paper 

 on the Collections of Butterflies made by him during four years 

 spent in Northern Rhodesia and adjacent territories. The collec- 

 tion comprised 450 species, of which 30 were new to science, 

 besides several rare and little-known species, including the rare 

 Acrcea miri£ca Lathy and the hitherto unknown female. 



Mr. J. T. Cunningham, M.A., F.Z.S., read a paper on the 

 Marine Fishes and Invertebrates of St. Helena, containing the 

 scientific results of a visit which he had made to the island in 

 February and March 1909, in company with, and at the invitation 

 of, Alfred Mosely, Esq., C.M.G., for the purpose of investigating 



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