No. 144. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



April 27th, 1915. 



Prof. E. A. Minchin, M.A., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



The Secretary exhibited lantern-slides of young Grey Seals 

 {Halichcerus grypus) prepared from photographs taken by 

 Mr. H. M. Banbury, F.Z.S., off the West Coast of Scotland. 

 The Seals were about five feet in length on the 24th of October, 

 1914. 



Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., F.Z.S., read a letter from Mr. J. 

 Gent, Forest Officer of the Darjeeling Division, on the possible 

 existence of a large Ape, unknown to science, in Sikkim. 



Prof. William Bateson, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited a number 

 of drawings illustrating the heredity of " hen- feathering " in 

 Cocks. 



Mrs. R. Haig Thomas, F.L.S., F.Z.S., read a paper on 

 " White-collar Mendelising in Hybrid Pheasants," based on an 

 examination of the relative numbers of dark-necked and ringed 

 male Pheasants shot during two seasons. The data collected were 

 interpreted as providing evidence of the continual Mendelising 

 which occurred in the collar of hybrid birds. 



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