No. 116. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.^ 



February 18th, 1913. 



Prof. E. A. MmcHiN, M.A., F.R.S., 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmecl. 



The Secretary read a Report on the Additions made to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of January, 1913. 



Mr. E. G. BouLENGER, F.Z.S., Curator of Reptiles, exhibited 

 spines of a Madagascar Hedgehog {Ericulus), which had been 

 found by Mr. C. R. Walter in the excrement of a Boa {B. inadagas- 

 cariensis), this being probably the first instance on record of a 

 Snake swallowing a spiny mammal. 



The Secretary, Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, F.R.S., F.Z.S., 

 exhibited a series of lantern-slides showing the opening and 

 closing of the patch of white hairs forming the dorsal stripe in a 

 living Tree-Hyrax {Dendrohyrax dorsalis). 



Mr. H. B. Preston, F.Z.S., read a paper entitled *' Diagnoses 

 of new Species and Varieties of Agnathou.s Mollusca from Equa- 

 torial Africa." He drew attention to the enormous field for 

 conchological reseai-ch awaiting the student of this very fruitful 

 region, and stated that in many parts each range of hills 

 appeared to have, to a certain extent, its own special molluscan 



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