No. 173. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



November 6th, 1917. 



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

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



Mr. R. H. BuR?rE, M.A., F.Z.S., exhibited preparations of the 

 Frog made by the Spatteholz method, and explained the diffi- 

 culties and advantages of the process. 



Prof. F. Wood Jones, M.B., D.Sc, F.Z.S., exhibited a series 

 of brains prepared in the Prosectorium, and called attention to 

 the fact that specimens preserved by the spirit method differed 

 not only in size but in surface details from those prepared by 

 more perfect formalin methods, and commented on the necessity 

 of revising much descriptive work on the anatomy of mammalian 

 brains from the better material that was now available. 



On behalf of Lieut. F. F. Laidlaw, M.A., F.Z.S., R.A.M.C., 

 xbsent on active service, a paper was presented entitled '' Some 

 A-dditions to the known Dragonfly Fauna of Borneo, with an 

 Account of new Species of the Genus Coeliccia." 



Dr. G. A. BouLENGER, F.R.S., F.Z.S., communicated a note 

 on the use of the names Plesiosauria and Sauropterygia. 



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