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Show No. 24. ABSTRAC T OF THE PROC E EDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON* December 12th, 1905. H ow ard S a u n d e r s , Esq., Yice-President, in the Chair, The S e c r e tar y read a report on the additions that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of November 1905. The S e c r e tar y also exhibited a coloured print, published by R. Ackermann in July 1812, of Polito's Royal Menagerie at Exeter 'Change, London. Mr. A. H. Co ck s , F.Z.S., exhibited twelve enlarged photographs of Whales taken by him at the Finwhaling Factories in East Finmarken in 1883-89. The species represented were Megaptera longimana, Bcdcenoptera sibbaldii, B. muscidus, and B. borealis. M r . G eorge P. M u d ge, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks upon a Dog-fish with an apparently abnormal disposition of the digestive viscera, and an Earthworm with bifid tail. Mr. H. B . F a n t h am , B .S c ., F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks upon a new Hsemosporidian parasite from the blood of a white Rat. Mr. O ld f ie ld T h om a s, F.R.S., exhibited the tail-vertebrje of a Dormouse of the genus JEliomys, which showed the phenomenon, hitherto unrecorded among Mammalia, of the regeneration of a bony structure in case of accident. The caudal vertebra, in this case the twelfth, which had been originally broken across, had grown out into a slender styliform appendix, 15 mm. in length, and rather less than 1 mm. in diameter, the normal vertebrae of this part of the tail measuring about 6 x 2 mm. * This Abstract is published by the Society at 3 Hanover Square, London, W ., on the Tuesday following the date of Meeting to which it refers. It will be issued, free of extra charge, to all Fellows who subscribe to the Publications, along with the ‘ Proceedings' ; but it may be obtained on the day of publication at the price of Sixpence, or, if desired, sent post-free for the sum of Six Shillings per annum, payable in advance. |
