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Show PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS or THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. • January 23, 1900. Dr. ALBERT GATHER, F.E.S., V.P., in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1899:- The* registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1899 were 09 in number. Of these 25 were acquired by presentation and 11 by purchase, 2 were born in the Gardens, and 31 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 131. Mr. Sclater exhibited a photograph of a young specimen of the Kocky Mountain Wild Goat (Haploceros montanus) now in captivity in British Columbia, which had been forwarded to him by Dr. A. B. C. Selwyn, C.M.G., F.R.S., C.M.Z.S., and read a letter from that gentleman kindly offering his assistance in obtaining the specimen for the Society's Collection. It was stated to have been captured on tbe 15th June last by a shooting party near Field, British Columbia. The mother was shot and the kid captured'. It was then about a month old and weighed only 6 lbs. On the 22nd December last it weighed 55 lbs. and had an excellent winter coat, as was shown in the photograph. Mr. Sclater exhibited a collection of Birds formed by Mr. Alfred Sharpe, C.B., C.M.Z.S., during a recent journey from Zomba to the PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1900, No. I. 1 |