No. 176. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON,' 



February 19th, 1918. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., Yice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



The Secretary read a Report on the Additions to the 

 Menagerie in the month of January, 1918. 



Dr. Smith Woodward, F.R.S,, V.P.Z.S., exhibited a copy of 

 an incised drawing of a hunted deer, pierced by arrows, made by 

 Palaeolithic man in the cave of La Peiia, San Roman de Candamo, 

 Asturias, Spain. ^It was lately published by Dr. Herndndez- 

 Pacheco in no. 1 7 of the memoirs of the Spanish commission on 

 prehistoric investigations. 



A letter, communicated by Professor Poulton, F.R.S,, F.Z.S., 

 was read from Captain G. D. Hale Ca,rpenter, M.D., giving an 

 account of a case which had come under his personal observation 

 in which an African Civet attacked human beings. 



A paper by L. A. Lantz of Moscow, communicated by Mr. G. 

 A. BouLENGER, F.R.S. , F.Z.S. , describing a collection of reptiles 

 made in Transcaspia and now in the Zoological Museum of 

 Moscow University, was read. 



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