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had been caused to the Society's staff by the death on the 7th of May last 

 year of M. A. D. Bartlett, for 38 year Superintendent of the Society's 

 Gardens. In the report made to the General Meeting on 19th May last the 

 Council had already recorded their deep sense of the services rendered to 

 the Society by the late Mr. Bartlett during the long period for which he had 

 held his post, and of their full appreciation of the skill, energy, and faithfulness 

 with which he hed discharged the multifarious and difficult duties of his 

 Office. On the present occasion the Council could de no more than repeat 

 the sentiments expressed at that Meeting, which they were sure would be 

 fully concurred in by all the Fellows of the Society. The vacancy thus caused 

 had been filled up by the appointment as Superintendent, of Mr. Bartlett's 

 second son, Mr. Clarence Bartlett, who had been in the Society's service for 

 36 years as his father's assistant. — The number of visitors to the Gardens 

 in 1897 had been 717,755, being 52,751 more than the corresponding 

 number in 1896. — The number of animals on the 31st December last had 

 been 2585, of Which 792 were Mammals, 1362 Birds, 431 Reptiles & Bra- 

 trachians. — Amongst the additions made during the past year, seventeen were 

 specially commented upon as being of remarkable interest, and in most cases 

 new to the Society's Collection. — The report concluded with a long list of 

 Donations to the Menagerie received in 1897. — A vote of thanks to the 

 Council for their report was then moved by Sir John Lubbock Bt., F.R.S., 

 seconded by Mr. R. Lydekker, F.R.S., and carried unanimously. — The 

 Meeting then proceeded to elect the new Members of Council and the 

 Officers for the ensuing year. The usual ballot having been taken it was 

 announced that Frank E. Beddard, Esq., F.R.S,, William T. Blanford, Esq., 

 L.L.D., F.R.S., Richard Lydekker, Esq., F.R.S., Howard Saunders, Esq. and 

 Charles S. Tomes, Esq., F.R.S., had been elected into the Council in the 

 place of the retiring Members, and that Sir William H, Flower K.C.B., 

 F.R.S., had been reelected President, Charles Drummond, Esq., Treasurer, 

 and Philip Lutley Sclater, Esq., M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., as Secretary to the 

 Society for the ensuing year. — The Meeting terminated with the usual vote 

 of thanks to the Chairman wich was proposed by Dr. H. Woodward 

 F.R.S., seconded by Sir Joseph Fayrer, Bt., F.R.S., and carried unanimously. 



19th April, 1898. — Mr. Ernest W. L. Hold exhibited some advanced 

 larve of the luminous fish Scopelus glacialis, bearing a dorsal expansion of 

 the skin, which was believed to act as a float. The specimens had been 

 collected by Dr. G. H. Fowler in the Faroe Channel. — On behalf of the 

 Hon. Walter Rothschild, F.Z.S., there was exhibited a fine mounted 

 specimen of the Ribbon-fish, Regalecus arméniens {?), from Dunedin, New 

 Zealand, intended for the Tring Museum. — Mr. Sclater made remarks on 

 some of the principal animals observed during recent visits to the Zoological 

 Garden of Marseilles and to the Jardin d'Acclimatation at Paris. — Mr. Ernest 

 W. L. Hold read a paper on the breeding of the Dragonet [Callionymus 

 lyra) in the Marine Biological Association's Aquarium at Plymouth, and 

 made some remarks on the significance of the sexual dimorphism of this 

 fish, the courtship and pairing of which were described in detail. The fe- 

 male was described as a promiscuous polyandrist, and seemed to exercise no 

 sort of choice, taking the nearest male which appeared to be in a condition 

 to further her object. The males were much more numerous, as well as 

 larger, than the females. The brilliant yellow colour of the mature male was 



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