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Show PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. (May to December, 1906.) May 1, 1906. Dr. H e n r y W o odw ard , F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions that had been made to the Society's Menagerie in March 1906 :- The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March were 124 in number. Of these 52 were acquired by presentation and 6 by purchase, 44 were received on deposit, 12 in exchange, and 10 were born in the Gardens. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, wTas 182. Amongst the additions special attention may be directed to :- A young female Gorilla (Anthropopithecus gorilla) from Cape Lopez, purchased on March 30th. A young male Lar Gibbon (Hylobcites lav) and a Leopard Cat (Felis bengalensis) from Perak, presented by the Perak State Museum on March 31st. A Narrow-banded Mongoose (Galidictis vittata) from Madagascar, new to the Collection, deposited on March 12th. A female Eland (Tauro tragus oryx), born in the Menagerie on March 12th. A new Species of Duiker. Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., exhibited the skin of a Duiker which had been shot in Nyasaland by Mr. S. W. Frank, and presented by him to the National Museum. It proved to be a P ro c . Z o o l . S o c .-1906, No. XXXII. 32 |