No. 102. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.' 



November 21st, 1911. 



S. F. Haemer, Esq., M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chaix-. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



The Secretary read a Eeport on the Additions that had been 

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

 1911. 



Mr. R. I. PococK, F.R.S., F.Z.S., Curator of Mammals, 

 exhibited two living examples of an Elephant-Shrew {Macro- 

 scelides sp.) from Bechuanaland, which had been presented to the 

 Society by Oapt. H. 0. F. Littledale and forwarded by Dr. L. 

 Peringuey, C.M.Z.S,, and remarked that these specimens, together 

 with another in the same consignment, but belonging to a different 

 species, were apparently the first representatives of the genus 

 Macrosoelides the Society had ever possessed. After drawing 

 attention to some interesting structural features shown by the 

 animals, Mr. Pocock said that the Society was to be congratulated 

 upon the safe arrival of these Elephant-Shrews, because, apart 

 from members of the Hedgehog-family, which from being omni- 

 vorous are more easy to preserve in captivity, exotic species of 

 Insectivora are proverbially difficult to keep alive for any length 

 of time and are therefore seldom exhibited in the Gardens. 



Dr. Geoffrey Smith, M.A., read a paper, communicated by 



the Secretary, entitled " The Freshwater Crayfishes of Australia." 



The object of this paper was to revise the classification and 



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