No. 136. 
ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 
Octcber 27th, 1914. 
Prof. E. A. Mixon, 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 to the Society’s 
Menagerie during the months of June, July, August, and 
September, 1914. 
Mr. R. H. Burne, M.A., V.P.Z.S8., exhibited a number of 
preparations showing some adaptations for the nourishinent of 
the embryos of Hlasmobranchs, 
Mr. R. E. Savacez exhibited two abnormal Herrings, taken by 
trawl in the North Sea. The first specimen had neither pelvic 
fins nor girdle (pelvic bones). ‘Phe usual position of base of fins 
was indicated externally by the presence of the characteristic 
elongated scales. The usual musculature was present internally. 
‘The second specimen lacked the lett pelvic fin and pelvic bone ; 
the musculature was complete. 
Messrs. E. Heron-Auten, F.L.S., F.Z.S., and Arraur Har- 
LAND, F.R.M.S., read a paper on the Horaminifera of the Kerimba 
Archipelago, obtained by Dr. J. J. Simpson in the years 1907-8. 
The area is a new one so far as the Foraminifera are concerned, 
the on’y records in any way approximating to it being the species 
described by d’Orbigny in 1826, by Brady in 1876 and 1884, by 
Mobius in 1880, and by Egger in 1893, from material which was 
collected from adjacent areas to the Hast of Madagascar, and otf 
Mauritius and the Seychelles. 
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