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One of the best gifts was from the Yellow Fever Research Sta- 
tion at Entebbe, Uganda, owner of a collection of rare monkeys 
it no longer required. These had been collected over a wide area 
and were a valuable acquisition. 
The full list of presentations by a number of people gives an 
indication of the generous response to my appeal: one wart-hog, 
one eland, one buffalo, one bush pig, one leopard, one cheetah, 
one black serval, one Brown Lemur, two Thick-tailed Galagos, 
one Sacred Baboon, one East African Olive Baboon, two John- 
ston’s Vervet Monkeys, one Abyssinian Vervet, one Uganda 
Vervet, one Lonnberg’s Monkey, one Stuhlmann’s Monkey, three 
Uganda White-nosed Monkeys, two L’Hoest’s Monkeys, two 
Crawshay’s Tree Hyraxes, three puff adders, one Andrew Smith’s 
Green Mamba, one boomslang and four Sharp-snouted Snakes. 
The rest of the collection, which was purchased, was made up 
as follows: one elephant (Dicksi), one Baringo Giraffe (Girlie), 
one wart-hog, one oryx, one Thompson’s Gazelle, one Hinde’s 
Duiker, one steinbok, one lion (Straw), three leopards, one 
cheetah, two impala, one genet, one ditto (black), four Ring- 
tailed Lemurs, two Thick-tailed Galagos, two Augur Buzzards, 
one puff adder and one python. 
There were quite a few characters among this lot, the most 
notable being Straw the lion, Dicksi the elephant, Bully the 
buffalo, and Tommy the Thompson’s Gazelle. Strangely enough 
the last was the first of its kind to reach the London Zoo, although 
it is the commonest gazelle in East Africa. 
Straw had spent most of his life running around the house and 
estate of his owner, the late Cleland Scott, who was famed for his 
fearlessness with lions; but Straw was now too big—not for Scott 
but for his visitors. I must say that my introduction to the animal 
was exciting in the extreme. At that moment, I am thankful to 
say, he was not sharing the settee with visitors, but was shut up in 
an enclosure. Cleland Scott took me to this, and to show me how 
docile a full-grown lion can be, he entered. Straw was delighted, 
so much so that he bounded on Scott and knocked him flat on 
his back, which I understood afterwards was a customary form of 
greeting. I began to get a little apprehensive when Straw sat 
lengthwise on his owner’s prostrate body and chewed playfully 
