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ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.' 



January 17th, 1905. 



G. A. BouLEXGER, Esq., F.R.tS., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been 

 made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December 

 1904, and called special attention to a young male Greater Koodoo 

 {Strepsiceros kudtt) presented by Major Irvine, I. M.S. ; to a 

 Hairy-eared Bear {Ursus piscator) presented by Mr. Frederick 

 Ringer ; to two Victoria Crowned Pigeons {Goura victorice), 

 obtained by purchase ; and to a young specimen of Pousargue's 

 Guenon {Gercopithecus pousaryuei) presented by Mr. L. Lester. 

 The last-named animal was new to the Collection. The total 

 number of additions during the month was 125. 



The Secretary exhibited an enlarged photograph, taken by 

 Mr. H. Sandland and presented by hin to the Society, of "Jim," 

 the Indian Rhinoceros which had recently died in the Gardens 

 after an existence there of forty-one years. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., lead the following three papers 

 based on observations he had made on specimens that had died 

 in the Society's Gardens : — (1) Some Notes on the Cranial 

 Osteology of the Mastigure (f/'romasiia;) ; (2) A Contribution to 

 the Anatomy of Chlamydosav,rus and some other Agamidce ; and 

 (3) A Note on the Brain of Cynopithecus niger. 



In three communications by Mr. W. F. Lanchester, M.A., 

 was given an account of (1) a collection of Sipunculids made at 

 Singapore and Malacca ; (2) a collection of Gephyrean Worms 

 from Zanzibar ; and (3) the Sipunculids and Echiurids collected 



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