No. 103. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON." 



February 6th, 1912. 



E. G. B. Meade- Waldo, Esq., Vice-President, 

 ill the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



The Secretary read a Report on the Additions that had been 

 made to the Society's Menagerie during the months of November 

 and December 1911 and January 1912. 



Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, V.P.Z.S., exhibited a mounted 

 specimen of a pale fulvous variety of the common wild Polecat 

 (F'uiorius putorms), belonging to the Rev. D. Edmondes Owen, 

 of Llandovery, S. Wales. The animal resembled in colour a well- 

 known variety of the Badger, and was interesting because the 

 Polecats in that particular district were frequently of this 

 peculiar variety and had been well known locally for years. 



The Secretary read an account of some obsei-vations made at 

 the Philadelphia Zoological Garden by Mr. R. D. Carson, 

 C.M.Z.S., on an instance of retarded development of the foetus 

 in a Red Kangaroo {^Macropihs rufus). 



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