PROCEEDINGS 



GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 23, L900. 

 Dr. Albert Gubtthbb, F.R.S., Y.P., in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie 'luring the month of December 1899 : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of December \^i)i) were t>9 in number. Of these 25 neiv 

 acquired by presentation and 11 by purchase, 2 wen- born in the 

 Gardens, and 3] were received on deposit. The total number of 

 departures during the same period, by death and removals, was I '■> 1 . 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a photograph of a young specimen of the 

 . Mountain Wild Goal (Hajjloceros montanus) now in cap- 

 tivity in Brit l ibia, which had been forwarded to him l>v 

 Dr. A. R. 0. Selwyn, C.M.G., b\B.S., C.M.Z.S., and read a letter 

 from that gentleman kindly offering his assistance in obtaining 

 specimen for the Society's Collection. It was stated to have 

 been captured on the Loth June a shooting partj near 



Columbia. The mother was shot and the kid cap- 

 tured. I' was then about a month >>id and weighed onlj 6 lbs. 

 ( > 1 1 the 22nd December Last it weighed 55 lbs. and had an excellent 

 winter coat) as was shown in the photograph. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a collection of Birds formed bj Mr. Ufred 

 Hharpe, C.B., C.M.Z.S., durh I journej from Zomba to the 



Paoo. Zool. Boo.— 1900, No. I. I 



