No^j9. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.^^ 



March 20th, 1906. 



Dr. Heney Woodward, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary vead a i-eport on the additions that had been 

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

 1906. 



The Secretary exhibited a paper cutting representing the 

 print of the fore foot of a large wild Indian Elephant, which 

 had been taken from an impression left in the soil, by Mr. C. A. 

 Sherring, Deputy Commissioner at Almora, India. The circum- 

 ference of the print was 66 inches. 



The Secretary also exhibited, on behalf of Mr. John Bowes, 

 F.Z.S., a tooth of the Mammoth from the sand in the estuary of 

 the East Swale, about three miles west of Heme Bay. 



Mr. Oldpield Thomas, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited a Brown Bear 

 from the Shan States, which appeared to represent a new foi-m 

 of the A . arctos group. It was diagnosed as follows : — 



XJrsus arctos shanorum, subsp. n. 



Most nearly alhed to U. a. yesoensis Lyd., but smaller and with 

 much shorter, broader teeth. 



Basal length of skull 295 mm. ; last upper premolar 17x15. 



Hah. Shan States. 



2^1/2^6. Male. B.M. No. 6.3.16.1. Received in exchange from 

 the Calcutta Museum, to whom it had been presented by the late 

 Mr. Rutledge. 



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