No. 180. 
ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 
March 17th, 1914. 
Prof. KE. A. Mincury, M.A., 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 month of February, 1914. 
Mr. R. H. Burne, M.A., F.Z.8., exhibited a specimen” of the 
palate of a female Bactrian Camel and a lantern-slide of a 
Hunterian preparation of the throat of a male Common Camel 
from the Royal College of Surgeons Museum, showing in each a 
fleshy appendage attached to the palate some inches in front of 
its free posterior border on a level with the anterior pillars of the 
fauces. 
_ This appendage, though rudimentary in the female, is of great 
size in the male, and during the rutting season can be distended 
and protruded from the mouth, and is in some way secondarily 
connected with the sexual functions. 
Mr. R. J. Pocock, F.R.S., F.Z.S., Curator of Mammals, 
exhibited a set of lantern-slides illustrating the structure of the 
feet in Domestic Dogs, with special reference to the extension of 
the interdigital integument. 
Two papers were received from Mr. L. N. G. Ramsay, M.A., 
B.Se., entitled: (1) On the Annelids of the Family Nereide 
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