ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.^ 



March 15th, 1904. 



Dr. Hexry Woodward, F.R.S., Vice- President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been 

 made to the Society's Me^a-g•erie dnring the month of February 

 1904, and called special attention to two male Asiatic Wapiti, 

 presented by the President on February 23rd, and to a male 

 Kiang {^Eq^ius Jiemionus) obtained by purchase on February 26th. 



Mr. Frank Slade, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks upon 

 a living Bantam hen which had on each of her wings a well- 

 developed thumb and claw. 



Dr. C. I. Forsyth Major, F.Z.S., exhibited a skull of Eystrix 

 leuG'ura (presented by Captain Stewart Douglas) showing a super- 

 numerary fifth cheek-tooth in both sides of the upper jaw. The 

 superadded tooth was considered to be the last in the series, and 

 thei-efore a fourth true molar. 



Dr. Forsyth Major also exhibited, on behalf of Dr. R. Broom, 

 C.M.Z.S., two fcetal Springbok skulls, c? and $ , which had 

 calcified uppei' deciduous canines. 



A third exhibition by Dr. Forsyth Major consisted of an 

 additional minute lower cheek-tooth occurring in a Middle 

 Miocene Shrew [Sorex pusilhis) ; this Shrew was inteimediate in 

 time as well as in the number of its lower teeth between the 

 Oligocene Proiosoi-ex and the lecent species of tSorex. 



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