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with the two exceptions already mentioned, will be as 

 gratifying to the Society at large as they have been to the 

 Council. Experience of the two past winters warrants the 

 Council in believing the most desirable ameUoration in the 

 sanitary condition of the Menagerie is to be attributed in 

 a great measure to the discontinuance of the artificial means 

 provided for heating the various apartments. The appa- 

 ratus has not been used during any part of the winter either 

 in the Giraffe or Monkey House. The only heat made 

 use of was that from a common open fire ; and under this 

 system both phthisis and catarrh, the former fatal pesti- 

 lences of the Monkey House, have almost entirely disap- 

 peared from this interesting portion of the Collection. 

 The health of the Carnivora in the new Terrace continues 

 to give the utmost satisfaction to the Council. 



Donations to the Menagerie. 



The principal Donations to the Menagerie during the 



past year were as follows : — 



A Tigress and a King Vulture, presented by Her Majesty. 



Three Ostriches and two Fezzan Sheep, presented by- 

 Colonel Warrington, Her Majesty's Consul at Tripoli, 

 Corr. Member. 



A Kinkajou, presented by Sir Roderick I. Murchison. 



A Wanderoo Monkey, presented by Lieut, Frere, 13th Lt. 

 Infantry. 



A Macaque Monkey, presented by Edward Oliver, Esq. 



A Brown Capuchin Monkey, presented by Mrs. Smith. 



A Bonneted Monkey, presented by — Wichelo, Esq. 



A Vervet Monkey, presented by Frederick Pelton, Esq. 



A Rhesus Monkey, presented by Mrs. Powell. 



A Moustache Monkey, presented by N. M. Huskisson, 

 Esq. 



A Malbrouck Monkey, presented by St. George Mivart, 



Esq. 

 A Rhesus Monkey, presented by Miss Pownall. 

 A Rhesus Monkey, presented by — Allen, Esq. 

 A Wolf from the Falkland Islands, presented by William 



Brown, Esq. 

 An Ocelot; three Black-crested Curassows ; a Golden 



Agouti ; two Black and Yellow Maccaws ; two Red and 



