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Show PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS OP THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. • January 16, 1894. Sir W. H. FLOWER, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1893:- The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1893 were 62 in number. Of these 29 were acquired by presentation, 15 by purchase, 7 were born in the Gardens, and 11 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 91. Mr. Sclater exhibited a coloured drawing of the head of Cercopithecus erythrogaster taken from the specimen of that Monkey in the Paris Museum, and read an extract from a letter addressed to him (enclosing it) by M . E. de Pousargues (Preparateur au Labora-toire de Mammalogie au Museum, 55 Rue de Buff on). It appeared that in the adult of this species the hairs on the nose are white, and that the species should therefore probably be removed, in M r . Sclater's arrangement of the genus, to " Section A. C. rhinosticti " (P. Z. S. 1893, p. 244), in the neighbourhood of C. petaurista. In the type in the British Museum these hairs were blackish, but there were indications of whitish at their bases, and the specimen was probably young. The Secretary read the following extract from a letter addressed PROC. ZOOL. SOC-1894, No. I. 1 |