No. 50. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON;^ 



December lOfch, 1907. 



Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bt., 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 November 

 1907. 



Mr. R. H. BuRNE, F.Z.S., exhibited the feet of a Common 

 Duiker {Cephaloplms sp.) with extensive and more or less 

 symmetrical overgrowth of the hoofs. The overgrowth was most 

 marked in the fore-feet, each hoof showing a tendency to an 

 inward spiral twist. The specimen was presented to the Royal 

 College of Surgeons' Museum by Mr. Griffin, of the Pretoria 

 Museum, Transvaal. The Antelope was shot (wild) by a farmer, 

 in stony bush veldt country about 40 miles from Pretoria. 

 Nothing unusual was noticed in its gait or running powers. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., Prosector to the Society, exhibited 

 a skin of the rare Marsupial Dactylopsila palpatoi- (A. Milne- 

 Edw.), which had been placed in his hands by Dr. C. G. 

 Seligmann, F.Z.S. 



A collection of Molluscan Shells, Corals, &c. collected in the 

 Pamban Channel, Southern India, was exhibited on behalf of 

 Mr. C. M. Vein'Kataramanujalu. 



The Secretary, Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, F.R.S., exhi- 

 bited prepai-ations of the intestinal tracts of the Polyprotodont 



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