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Show PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. January 17, 1899. Dr. ALBERT GUNTHER, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1898:- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December was 80, of which 20 were by presentation, 1 by exchange, 19 by purchase, 35 were received on deposit, and 5 were born in the Menagerie. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 97. Dr. F. P. Moreno exhibited and made remarks upon the original specimen of the recently described mammal Neomylodon listai, which he believed to be a portion of the skin of one of the old Pampean Mylodons now quite extinct. Mr. Sclater read some extracts from letters recently received from Mr. J. S. Budgett, F.Z.S., who had been sent by the Council on a scientific mission to the Gambia (see P. Z. S. 1898, p. 852). Mr. Budgett had arrived at M'Carthy's Island, 127 miles up the river, on Nov. 11, and up to the date of his last letter (Dec. 8) had been principally occupied in collecting Fishes. He had obtained a large number of Polypteri of different sizes, the PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1899, No. I. 1 |
