No. 60. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON* 



June 16tli, 1908. 



Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., Yice- 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 May 1908. 



Dr. A. Smith "Woodward, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited photographs 

 and fragments of skin and bone of a Mammoth and a Rhinoceros 

 discovered in an ozokerite mine at Starunia, Galicia. The car- 

 cases of these animals appeared to have found their way into an 

 old marsh saturated with petroleum, which had completely 

 preserved them. The photographs and specimens had been 

 received from Dr. George von Kaufmann, who intended to present 

 them to the British Museum. 



Dr. 0. I. Forsyth Major, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited the lower 

 jaw of a young Canadian Beaver in which there was present on 

 each side a small conical tooth anterior to the deciduous pre- 

 molar. He considered the supernumerary premolar to be a case 

 of atavism. 



Dr. Forsyth Major exhibited a set of drawings made from 

 examples of two species of Castor from the East Runton Forest- 

 bed, and remarked that truly Forest-bed species were found in 

 association with Pliocene species. He discussed incidentally the 

 numerous species of recent European Beavers admitted by 

 Professor Matschie. 



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