No. 170. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIEIT OF LONDON.* 



May 15th, 1917. 



Dr. S. F. Harmer, M.A., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



The SEORiiTARY read a Report on the Additions made to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of April, 1917. 



Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S,, Secretary to 

 the Society, showed the behaviour of a large series of Birds and 

 Mammals in the presence of living Serpents, and demonstrated 

 that, except in the case of the higher Monkeys and a few kinds 

 of Birds, there was no trace of instinctive dread of Serpents. 



Mr. D. Seth-Smith, F.Z.S., Curator of Birds, gave a lantern 

 exhibition of Birds now or recently living in the Society's 

 Gardens, 



* Tliis Abstract is published by the Society at its offices, Zoological Gardens, 

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 to all Fellows who subscribe to the Publications ; but it may be obtained on the 

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