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Show PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. • January 19, 1897. 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 Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1896:- The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1896 were 177 in number. Of these 43 were acquired by presentation, 2 by purchase, 3 were born in the Gardens, 81 were received by exchange, and 48 on deposit. The total number of departures daring the same period, by death and removals, was 109. The Secretary exhibited a set of seven slightly enlarged photographs illustrating the mode in which the Rough-keeled Snake (Dasypeltis scabra) swallows an egg. These bad been taken from a living specimen in the Society's Gardens (which had been received April 21st, 1894, and died October 4th, 1896), by Mr. R. F. Nesbit, by whom they had been presented to the Society. The specimen from which the photographs had been taken, measuring about 28 inches in length, was also exhibited. The Secretary also placed upon the table a specimen of the PROC. ZOOL. SOC.-1897, No. I. 1 |