No. 58. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON* 



May 12th, 1908. 



F. DuCanb Godman, Esq., D.O.L., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



Tlie Sbceetart read a Report on the additions that had been 

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

 1908. 



Mr. W. Woodland, F.Z.S., exhibited preparations of a new 

 gland he had found in certain teleostean fishes, and made the 

 following remarks : — " This new gland is diffuse in form and is 

 intermingled with the veins and arteries which subdivide to form 

 the numerous parallel capillaries of the rete mirabile found in 

 connection with all teleost ' red bodies.' It is quite distinct 

 from the gas-gland, and consists of rows of huge columnar cells, 

 which are situated in close connection with the blood-vessels, 

 which possess large nuclei and nvicleoli and are packed with 

 numerous large spherical granules derived from the red-corpuscle 

 disintegration concerned in the generation of the oxygen con- 

 tained in the swim- bladder. These granules, thus abstracted by 

 the gland-cells from the blood, are carried away by special ducts 

 appertaining to the gland. The discovery of this important 

 gland confirms Jeegei-'s view as to the mode of generation of 

 the bladder oxygen. This gland exists in Gobius, Syngnatlms, 

 Peristedion, Box, and some other genera." 



Mr. T. A. Coward, F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of a Petrel, 

 CEstr electa neglecta Schleg., which was the property of Mr. Arthur 

 Newstead, of Cheshire, and had been picked up dead, yet in a 



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