232 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



May 24. Anniversary Meeting. — Prof. Stewart, President, in the 

 chair. 



The Rev. W. Johnson and Dr. Theodore Cooke were admitted Fellows 

 of the Society. 



The Treasurer presented his Annual Report duly audited, and the 

 Secretary having announced the elections and deaths during the past twelve 

 mouths, the usual ballot took place for new Members of Council, when the 

 following were elected : — Messrs. J. G. Baker, A. C. Giinther, G. R. 

 Murray, R. C. A. Prior, and Howard Saunders. The President and 

 officers were re-elected. 



The Librarian's Report having been read, and certain formal business 

 disposed of, the President delivered his Annual Address, taking for his 

 subject " The various modes in which animal souuds are produced." On the 

 motion of Dr. Braithwaite, seconded by Sir James Gibson Maitland, Bart., 

 a unanimous vote of thanks was accorded to the President for his able 

 Address, with a request that he would allow it to be printed. 



The Society's Gold Medal was then formally presented to Prof. Daniel 

 Oliver, in recognition of the service rendered by him to Botanical Science 

 by numerous valuable publications. A characteristic reply having been 

 made by Prof. Oliver, the proceedings terminated. 



Zoological Society op London. 



May 2, 1893.— Sir W. H. Flower, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, 

 in the chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of April ; and called special attention 

 to a young male Orang, Simla satyrus, brought home from Singapore, and 

 presented by Mr. Thomas Workman ; a White-bellied Hedgehog, Erinaceus 

 albiventer, from Somaliland, presented by Mr. H. W. Seton-Kerr ; and a 

 female Gibbon, Hylobates muelleri, brought home from North Borneo, aud 

 presented by Mr. Leicester P. Beaufort. 



The Secretary laid on the table a list of the exact dates of the issue of 

 the sheets of the Society's 'Proceedings' from 1831 to 1859, concerning 

 which information had lately been applied for. He made some remarks on 

 the occasional protrusion of the cloaca in the Vasa Parrot at certain seasons. 

 He also read some notes on the Monkeys of the genus Cercopithecus, and 

 called attention to C. boutourlinii, Giglioli, from Kaffa, Abyssinia, of which 

 he had lately examined specimens in the Zoological Museum of Florence, 

 and which he considered to be a perfectly valid species. 



Mr. M. F. Woodward read a paper (the first of a series) entitled 

 " Contributions to the Study of Mammalian Dentition." In the present 

 communication he treated of the dentition of the Macropodidm, and described 

 the presence of a number of vestigial incisors. He also showed that the 



