No. 186. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



November 19tli, 1918. 



Dr. A. Smith-Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



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

 Menagerie in the month of October 1918, calling special attention 

 to a captured German Oarrier-pigeon Loft, with thirty-five 

 of the captured Pigeons, taken by the Canadians at Folies, 

 France, on August 9th, and presented to the Society by the 

 War Office through Major A. H. Osman, Officer Commanding the 

 English Carrier- Pigeon Service. 



Miss K. Lander, F.Z.S., described the method of preparing 

 skeletons by the use of trypsin, and exhibited a number of 

 successful examples from the Society's Prosectorium. 



Mr. E. Hatschek described his investigations into the forms 

 assumed by drops and vortices of gelatin in various coagulants, 

 exhibited a series of the formations he had obtained which 

 simulated animal structures, and demonstrated the method by 

 which he obtained his results. 



Professor F. Wood- Jones, F.Z.S., exhibited a east and a set of 

 Rontgen-i-ay photographs taken from a Chimpanzee belonging 



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