432 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1907. 
I noted, among the most curious animals, a colony of Canadian 
poreupines (Zrethizon dorsatus), which easily climb about upon the 
tree assigned to them, passing the whole day there; at evening these 
animals retreat to little houses placed around the trunk at some 
distance from the ground. 
T noted that a certain number of birds elsewhere kept in inclosures 
or aviaries were left here in perfect liberty. It is not one of the least 
of the beauties of the garden to see egrets, pelicans, flamingoes, grebes, 
herons, swans, ducks, water hens, gulls, barnacle geese, etc-, swimming 
about on the large pond and resting along its brink, or indeed to meet 
on the lawns or walks emus, rheas, peacocks, cranes, geese, etc., who 
come up to the visitor without fear and beg, sometimes with too much 
insistence, for morsels of bread. 
THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN AT ANTWERP. 
The Antwerp Garden is the only one of four Belgian zoological 
gardens founded during the last century that has survived. The 
one at Brussels was transformed in 1879 to become the Leopold Park, 
that at Ghent was closed, and that at Liége disappeared at the time of 
the International Exposition of 1905. 
It was founded in 1848, and belongs to the Royal Society of 
Zoology of Antwerp (Limited), which has at the present time (April, 
1906) 7,800 members. The affairs of the society are administered 
by a council of five members nominated and removable by the general 
assembly, from whose number they are chosen; there is a president 
(M. Albert Thys), a vice-president, a treasurer, and a secretary. 
This council meets at least once every two months. In conjunction 
with the director it has especial charge of everything relating to the 
sale, purchase, and exchange of objects belonging to the collections 
of the society. Its operations are also audited by a committee of five 
nominated and removable by the general assembly. 
The receipts of the society for the years 1905-6 were as follows: 
Francs. 
Memberships pfeesSpss ii eu. 7.8 2. Bea ee a eo: eer ae eee a 359, T89 
Sales Of tieketst to, SinaM ee ns eee es ee ee 187, 439 
Salessor-milkzand. utters 222-2 Soe oo ee Ae ee eee 53, 918 
Hlephantywandeponty: tekets 5.2. a a se eee 2, 917 
SASS TAO Lp Ta TATA Tes are ee ae RE ae FN ae ee Se ae dre en 1, 650 
ROMEHOLATESTAUITATIES: - Coan ae Cl eter pe TUNA, ale caer a 70, 762 
Sale R of ear a a a i a ee ee 286, 144 
Miscellaneous sources____-----____ Sie ea ait A te ee ee 30, 406 
MoO tas 22 2 We EE a Le eee fi Ae ie ee 993, 025 
The garden is superintended by a director (at present Dr. Michel 
L’hoést), nominated and removable by the general assembly by secret 
ballot, upon recommendations submitted by the council. This di- 
rector, who has a salary of 12,000 frances and is allowed a house, has 
