Extract from the Minutes 
nf the 
Exerutive Canmitter of the Doard of Managers 
of the New Work Zonlogical Society 
®rtnher 14, 1915 
on the occasion of the 
Death of Sanuwl Choarner 
Resolved, ‘Yhat the Executive Committee place on the record 
their deep sense of loss in the death of Mr. Samuel ‘Thorne, on 
July 4, 1915. 
Mr. Thorne was one of the very earliest Patrons of the Society, 
having qualified in July, 1897, and subsequently became, through his 
munificent subscriptions, a Founder and a Benefactor. He was also 
one of the early members of the Executive Committee, and a most 
faithful and helpful attendant at the many meetings when the plan- 
ning and constructive work of the Zoological Park were under way. 
At the time of his death he was Vice-President of the Society. 
Mr. Thorne’s singularly agreeable personality endeared him to 
his associates, and his tact and consideration towards others added 
to his natural force of character in the impress he made on the 
achievements of the Society. 
To the Society his loss will be great, and to his friends on the 
Committee there remains the last sad duty of placing this record 
of his services on the minutes. 
