No. 67. 
ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
March 2nd, 1909. 
G. A. Bounencer, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Mr. R. H. Burne, F.Z.8., exhibited specimens of elastic 
mechanisms in Fishes and a Snake which had been prepared for 
the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. 
Dr. R. F. Scuarrr, BSc., F.Z.S., exhibited a number of 
Reindeer bones and antlers, obtained from Ivish caves, which 
displayed marks showing that they had been gnawed by different 
kinds of animals, probably in some cases by Rodents. 
Mr. R. I. Pocock, F.L.S., F.Z.S., exhibited the skulls of some 
Leopards, and called attention to the differences in skulls from 
Africa and India and to the evidence afforded by them as to the 
existence of a small and large type of leopard in Africa. 
Miss Marearer Poote read a paper on “The Development of 
the Subdivisions of the Pleuro-peritoneal Cavity in Birds,” com- 
municated by Prof. G. C. Bourne, D.Sc., F.Z.8., and illustrated 
her remarks with lantern-slides. 
A paper was received from Mr. EK. 8. Russrtt, M.A., entitled 
“The Growth of the Shell of Patella vulgata L.,” communicated 
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