No. 230. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PiiOOEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 



May 23rd, 1922. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.8., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a Report on the Additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of April, 1922. 



Mr. R. I. PocoCK, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited, and made 

 remarks upon, a living example of the rare Bush -Dog Speothos 

 venaticus. 



Mr. E. G. BouLENGER, F.Z.S. , and Mr. F. Martin Duncan, 

 F.Z.S. , exhibited, and made remarks upon, a Cinematograph 

 record which they had taken illustrating the Life-history of the 

 Axolotl (^Amhlystovia tigrimom). 



Mr. D. Seth-Smith, F.Z.S., exhibited, and made remarks upon, 

 a series of photographs he had taken of some recent important 

 additions to the Society's collection of Birds. 



The Rev. H. N. Hutchinson, M.A., F.Z.S., exhibited, and 

 made remarks upon, a plaster cast of a model reconstruction of 

 the marine reptile Peloneustes phila7'chus, a Pliosaur from the 

 Oxford Clay, stating that he had received valuable assistance 

 from Mr. Ed. Godwin in completing the model. 



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