PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
(January to April, 1909.) 
January 12, 1909. 
Prof. J. Rose Braprorp, M.D., D.Sc., F.R.8., Vice-President, 
in the Chair. 
The Secretary read the following report on the additions made to 
the Society’s Menagerie during the month of December 1908 :— 
The number of registered additions to the Society’s Menagerie 
during the month of December last was 57. Of these 36 were 
acquired by presentation, 8 by purchase, 7 were received on 
deposit, 2 by exchange, and 4 were born in the Gardens. The 
number of departures during the same period, by death and 
removals, was 212. 
Amongst the additions special attention may be directed to :— 
A Brown Bear (Ursus arctos), from Russia, presented by 
G. Cecil Whitaker, Esq., on December 8th. 
Two Mole Rats (Georychus hottentottus), new to the collection, 
from Mashonaland, presented by J. ffolliott Darling, Esq., F.Z.S., 
on December 9th. 
Two Labrador Jays (Perisoreus atricapillus), from Labrador, 
presented by the Rev. W. W. Perrett on December 14th. 
One Yellow-billed Sheathbill (Chionis alba), from the Falkland 
Islands, presented by F. W. Tode, Esq., on December 14th. 
ee 
Dr. H. G. Plimmer, F.L.S., F.Z.8., Pathologist to the Society, 
exhibited the stomach of a Boa suffering from gastritis, and the 
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