No. 1387. 
ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.” 
November 10th, 1914. 
Prof. E. W. MacBripve, M.A., D.Sc., 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 month of October. 
The SrcreTary exhibited a photograph showing Oysters 
eee upon mangroves at Lobito Bay, Portuguese West 
rica. 
Mr. L. H. Jaugs, F.Z.S., communicated some notes upon the 
birth of a Porpoise at the Brighton Aquarium. 
Mr. R. I. Pocock, F.R.S., F.L.S., Curator of Mammals, gave 
an exhibition, illustrated by lantern-slides, showing some un- 
recorded structural differences between the Pine-Marten (J/artes 
martes) and the Beech-Marten (artes foina), and pointed out 
that the two species, apart from the known differences in the 
skull and teeth, may be distinguished by the size of the ears, 
which are broader and longer in J. martes than in JZ. foina, 
and by the dimensions of the pads on the feet, which are con- 
siderably larger and less overgrown with hair in J/, foina than 
in WM. martes. 
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