THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 833 



EXHIBITIONS AND NOTICES. 



May 9th, 1923. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., "Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary exhibited, and made remarks upon, a medal 

 struck to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Royal 

 Academy of Belgium. 



Mr. F. Martin Duncan, F.Z.S., exhibited, and made remarks 

 upon, a series of cinematograph-films illustrating various stages 

 in the life-history of the Wood- Ant {Formica rufci) and of the 

 Common Wasp {Vesj^a gei^manica), and asked the Society to 

 accept the series for its Zoological Film Library, 



Dr. Chas. F. Sonntag, F.Z.S., exhibited, and made remai-ks 

 upon, a series of specimens and lantei'n-slides illustrating some 

 points in the Anatomy and Physiology of Whales. 



May 23rd, 1922. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., Yice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following Report on the Additions to 

 the Society's Menagerie during the month of April, 1922 : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of April were 369 in number. Of these 95 were 

 acquired by presentation, 105 were deposited, 156 were purchased, 

 3 were received in exchange, and 10 were born in the Menagerie. 



The following may be specially mentioned : — 



A pair of Abbott's Duikers {Cephalophits spadix), new to the 

 Collection, from Usambara, presented by H.E. Sir Horace Byatt 

 on April 1st. 



1 Gambian Pouched Rat {Cricetomys gamhianus), from French 

 West Africa, presented by Curtis G. Lampson, Esq., on April 3rd. 



1 King Guereza (Colobus polycomus), from West Africa, 

 deposited on April 28th. 



