No. 46. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON* 



May 28t]i, 1907. 

 Dr. J. RosK Bradford, F.R.tS,,' Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been 

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

 1907. 



The Secretary exhibited a specimen of the patent Falconnier 

 Glass Bricks, which had been referred to by Mr. Ti-evor-Battye 

 at the last scientific meeting of the Society, as specially suitable 

 for the construction of menagerie buildings. 



The Secretary also exhibited a frontlet bearing a fine pair of 

 horns of the Takin (Budorcas taxicolor Hodgson). The specimen 

 had been given to Mr. A. St. Clair B. Carnegy by Mr. Charles 

 T. Forbes, of Badipar, Assam, who had obtained it from the Rajah 

 of the Kampti Country. 



Dr. H. Hammond Smith exhibited and made remarks upon a 

 collection of the grits from the gizzards of the Game-birds of 

 England, Scotland, and Wales. 



Dr. C. W. Andrews, F.R.S., communicated a paper, illustrated 

 by lantern-slides, by Dr. G. Elliot Smith, of the School of Medicine, 

 Cairo, on the form of the Brain in the Extinct Lemurs of 

 Madagascar, with some remarks on the affinities of the Indrisince.. 

 It formed a supplement to the paper on recently-discovered sub- 

 fossil Prosimise fi-om Madagascar, read before the Society by 



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