No. 187. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



Felsruary 4th, 1919. 



Dr. S. F. Harmer, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



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

 Menagerie in the months of November and December, 1918. 



Mr. C. Da VIES Shebborn, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks 

 on a letter written in 1693, by Malpighi to Dr. Mathew Faber. 



Sir Douglas Mawson read a communication on Australasian, 

 Antarctic, and Subantarctic Life, and exhibited a large series of 

 lantern-slides illustrating the scenery and mammals and birds 

 of the South Polar Zone. He commented on the urgent need of 

 international measures to preserve the fauna of these regions. 

 The Chairman, expressing the sense of the Meeting, assured 

 Sir Douglas Mawson of the active sympathy and support of the 

 Zoological Society. 



A communication by Mr. R. I. Pocock was deferred to the 

 next Meeting, with the consent of the Author. 



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