PROCEEDINGS 



GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(May to December, 1907.) 



May 7, 1907. 



G. A. BouLENGER, Esq., F.R.S., Yice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. H. B. Fantham, B.Sc, F.Z.S., exhibited original drawings 

 of Spirochceta anodontce from the crystalline style and intestine 

 of Anodonta cygnea. This was the first record of the occurrence 

 of that parasite in the British Pond-Mussel, though Keysselitz 

 recorded probably the same organism from Anodonta mutabilis 

 about a yeai* ago, without giving its dimensions. The organism 

 was found to be about 40 n long and about 0*7 ju broad, with 

 pointed ends and an undulating membrane. Its motion was 

 most rapid, but seemed to be both spiral and vibratory. 



The Secretary, Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, F.R.S., exhibited 

 photographs of a young male African Elephant, which had been 

 given him by Mr. W. T. Hornaday, C.M.Z.S., Director of the 

 Bronx Zoological Park, New York, and made the following- 

 remarks : — 



On a recent visit to the New York Zoological Gardens, I was 

 much interested by a young African Elephant, labelled Elephas 

 cyclotis Matschie, but which was unlike any Elephant that I had 

 seen alive or described. From its general shape and appearance, 



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