No. 59. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OP LONDON;^ 



May 26fch, 1908. 

 Professor E. A. Minchin, M.A., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



A paper was read by Messrs. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., F.Z.S., 

 and R. C. Wroughton, F.Z.S., on Mammals collected by Mr. C. 

 H. B. Grant near Tette, Zambesia, being the tenth and last of 

 the series of papers on Mr. 0. D, Eudd's Exploration of South 

 Africa. 



The importance of this collection was due to the fact that 

 Tette was the place where Dr. Peters obtained most of the speci- 

 mens on which his ' Saugethiere von Mossambique ' (1852) was 

 based, and the specimens now collected were therefore topotypes 

 of his species and in consequence of great value in working out 

 S. African Mammals in general. 



104 specimens were referred to, belonging to 32 species. 

 A resume was then given of the papers which had been pub- 

 lished on the collections presented to the National Museum by 

 Mr. Rudd, both those of the present series and others based more 

 or less directly upon his specimens. 



The exploration had lasted five years, and its results formed 

 the largest and most complete collection that the Museum had 

 ever received from any one source. Besides duplicates, 1541 

 specimens had been registered in the Museum, a large number of 

 new species and subspecies had been discovered and described, 

 and many more old and inexactly described species were now 

 represented by good series of well-prepared skins and skulls. 



The collection had, in fact, revolutionized ovir knowledge of 

 S. African Mammalogy, and it was impossible to exaggerate the 



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