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Show PROCEEDINGS OP THE GENERAL MEETINGS FOE SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. • January 6, 1891. Prof. Alfred Newton, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1890:- The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1890 were 62 in number. Of these 52 were acquired by presentation, 2 by purchase, 1 by exchange, 2 were born in the Gardens, and 5 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 81. Mr. Sclater exhibited some sketches made by Lieut. W . E. Stairs, R.E., of the horns of a large Antelope, apparently unknown to science, which had been met with by the Emin-Pasha Relief Expedition in the forest-district of the Aruwimi. When the Antelope was first mentioned to him by Lieut. Stairs, M r . Sclater supposed it might be the Antilope triangularis lately described by Dr. Giinther (P. Z. S. 1889, p. 74). On calling Lieut. Stairs's attention to this figure and description, he sent the following remarks in reply:- " The drawings of the horns of Antilope triangularis in the ' Proceedings ' bear but very little resemblance to those of the Antelope I spoke of. The description is also evidently not that of the animal in question. The length of horns of m y Antelope, judging from three different specimens, would average about 26 inches. The horns are brown, not black, or, more strictly speaking, are of the colour of PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1891, No. I. 1 |