No. 226. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



March 31st, 1922. 



Dv. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



Tlie Secretary read a Report on the Additions to the Society's 

 Menagerie during the month of February, 1922. 



The Secretary read a short paper entitled " Monkeys and the 

 Fear of Snakes," and, in illustration, exhibited a cinematograph 

 film recently taken in the Society's Gardens by Mr. F. Martin 

 Duncan, showing a young Chimpanzee playing with a live snake. 



Mr. Gilbert Blaine, F.Z.S., communicated his paper " Notes 

 on the Zebras and some Antelopes of Angola." 



Mr. R. I. PococK, F.R.S., F.Z.S., gave a resume of his paper 

 " On the External Characters of someHistricomorph Rodents." 



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