No. 124. 



ABSTRACT OF TEE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



October 28th, 1913, 



Prof. E. A, MixcHiN, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., Yice-President, 

 in the Cliair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



The Sbcketaky read a Report on the Additions made to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the months May to September, 

 1913. 



The Secrbtarx exhibited a preparation of the alimentary tract 

 of a young Elliot's Pheasant (Fhasiami^ ellioti), dissected so as to 

 show the gut-pattern in relation to the mesentery, blood-vessels, 

 and visceral nerves. The preparation was mounted as a trans- 

 parent object in glycerine jelly, and showed how the various 

 morphological conditions of the intestinal tract to which he had 

 called attention (Trans. Linn. Soc, Zool. viii. p, 173) might be 

 displayed as permanent museum objects. 



Mr. R. I. PococK, F.R.S., F.Z.S., Curator of Mammals, 

 exhibited a female and three young specimens of the Woolly 

 Opossum (Fhilander laniger), from Buenaventura in Colombia, 

 presented by Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell, F.Z.S., and drew attention 

 to the rapid growth of the young. "When Dr, Spurrell cap- 

 tured the mother, the little ones were still in the pouch. 

 Six weeks afterwards, when they reached the Gardens, they 

 had left the pouch for good, were about one-fourth grown, 

 and were just beginning to feed on their own account, though 



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