No. 189. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON/ 



March 4tli, 1919. 



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

 in the Chair. 



Dr. J. A. Murray, F.Z.S., read a report on the deaths in the 

 Gardens during the year 1918, iUustrating his remarks with 

 lantern-slides. 



Mr. G. A. BouLENGER, F.R.S., F.Z.S., described a collection of 

 Fishes from Lake Tanganyika, and drew attention to three new 

 species. 



Miss Joan B. Procter, F.Z.S., gave a short account of her 

 paper " On the Skull and Affinities of Rana subsigillata" drawing 

 attention to several cranial characters either peculiar to this frog 

 or held in common with R, adspersa, its nearest ally. 



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