No. 172. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



October 23rd, 1917. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



The Secretary read a Report on the Additions made to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the months of May, June, July, 

 August, and September, 1917. 



Prof. F. Wood Jones, M.B., D.Sc, exhibited the skull of a 

 lioness which had lived for seventeen years in the Gardens and 

 showed definite changes induced by captivity. The brain of the 

 same animal was shown. For contrast, the skull of a wild 

 African lion and of some other forms were lent by the Royal 

 College of Surgeons. The foetal skull of a cub born in the 

 Gardens was also exhibited. 



Miss Evelyn Cheesman made some remarks on the feeding 

 habits of the Long Water- Scorpion, Ranatra ; on the burrows 

 made by the Mole-Cricket, Gryllotalpa ; and on the formation 

 of the case by the Caddis-worm Phrygania grandiosa, based on 

 observations made in the Caird Insect House, and exhibited 

 examples of the living insects to the Meeting. 



Mr. H. D. Badcock gave an account of his communication 

 entitled " Ant-like Spiders from Malaya., collected by the 

 Annandale-Robinson Expedition, 1901-2." 



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