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Council, of which he was for many years a most active and efficient 

 member. As President he was unremitting in the discharge of the duties 

 of his office, and ever anxious to promote the interests of the Society. 



On January 16, 1868, Viscount Walden (afterwards tlie 

 Marquess of Tweeddale), a well-known ornithologist, was elected 

 President till the Annual Meeting, and Professor Huxley was 

 chosen to fill the vacancy thus caused in the Council. 



In 1865 a new office, that of Prosector, was created, for the 

 reasons thus stated in the Council's report : 



1. As likely to lead to a better knowledge of the diseases of animals, 

 a subject of which we are at the present time lamentably ignorant, and by 

 the knowledge thus acquired to induce a better treatment of them when 

 alive ; and 



2. In the interests of zoological science, in order that a more perfect 

 and systematic record may be kept of the internal structure of the many 

 rare and valuable animals that from time to time die in the Society's 

 menagerie. 



Dr. James Murie, who had been an assistant in the 

 Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons and medical officer 

 and naturalist to Petherick's expedition, was selected from 

 a number of candidates for the new post, as being "in every 

 way qualified for this arduous situation, and likely at once 

 to advance the interests of the Society, and those of zoological 

 science." Dr. Murie filled the post till March, 1870, when he 

 tendered his resignation on account of ill-health. In accept- 

 ing it the Council requested him to continue in office, without 

 discharging any of the ordinary duties, in order to finish 

 certain papers for the Transactions. 



James Thomson, the head-keeper, was pensioned in 1869, and 

 was succeeded by Misselbrook, who held the post for twenty 

 years. 



In 1861 the antelope house was completed at a cost of over 

 £4,000, and the animals were transferred thither. It was fitted 

 up with heating apparatus, which was also adapted to supply the 

 hot-water pipes in the Terrace dens. The new part, facing the 

 porpoise pond (afterwards used for sea-lions), contains fifteen 

 stalls, each communicating by sliding doors with those adjoining, 

 and opening on to a small yard. One defect, however, is that 

 the animals cannot be turned into the grazing paddock ; but it is 



