No. 69. 
ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON,* 
April 6th, 1909. 
FREDERICK GILLETT, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Grorcre JEnnison, 
some fertilized eggs from a pair of Seba Pythons in the Belle Vue 
Zoological Gardens, Manchester. 
Dr. R. T. Lerper, F.Z.S., exhibited a greatly distorted Elephant’s 
tusk from the Congo, and a malformed canine tooth of a Hip- 
popotamus from Uganda, the conditions most probably originating 
from mechanical injury. 
Mr. HK. T. Newron, F.R.S., F.Z.8., exhibited a metatarsal bone 
of an Ox, showing in a remarkable manner the marks of gnawing 
by rodents, possibly Squirrels, Rats, or Mice, which he had found 
in the woods near Cromer. 
Mr. R. I. Pocock, F.LS., F.Z.S., communicated a paper 
entitled ‘* Description of a new Form of Ratel (Mellivora) from 
Sierra Leone, with Notes upon the described African Forms of 
this Genus.” 
Miss Murret Ropertson read a paper, communicated by 
Prof. E. A. Mincuin, M.A., V.P.Z.S., ““On an Ichthyosporidian 
causing a Fatal Disease in Sea-Trout.” 
Mr. C. Tare Recan, M.A., F.Z.S., read a paper on a small 
series of fishes from Christmas Island, collected by Dr. C. W. 
Andrews, F.R.8., F.Z.8. Seven new species were described, com- 
prising five Blennies, a Pampeneus, anda Cirrhites. In connection 
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