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being born, in order that the young one might be taken away 

 at once and brought up by hand. On November 5 the third 

 birth occurred, but fortunately there was no necessity for the 

 removal of the calf The dam took to it at once ; and, as 

 Frank Buckland put it, the calf had more sense than its 

 brother and sister, for it almost immediately discovered and 

 made use of its mother's milk. At the monthly meeting on 

 November 21 the Secretary announced that the calf was 

 thriving and the dam was becoming less savage and excitable 

 when approached, and that it was hoped to exhibit the little 

 one to the Fellows and their friends on the following Sunday. 



The king colobus, the white-thighed colobus, and the 

 rock-hopper penguin were introduced in 1873, and in 1874 the 

 Javan or Sondaic rhinoceros was exhibited for the first time. 

 This small representative of the Indian rhinoceros was probably, 

 at that time, the only individual of the species in Europe. An 

 uncoloured plate, from a drawing of this animal by Wolf, was 

 issued with the Council's Report. 



In August, 1875, a half-grown female American manatee 

 was purchased. This was the first living specimen exhibited 

 in England; it was obtained on the coast of Demarara, and 

 was three weeks on the passage to this country, during which 

 time it was in a big swinging tank specially constructed for 

 the purpose. On September 7 it died ; but Garrod studied it 

 closely, and described the curious action of the lip-pads, the 

 structure of which had been investigated by his predecessor. 

 The upper Hp is cleft into two pads; these can be separated 

 so as to leave a considerable gap, and then brought together 

 to grasp food, which is introduced into the mouth by the 

 backward motion of their margins. 



Other important additions were a pair of giant tortoises, 

 originally from Aldabra, which had long been kept in cap- 

 tivity in the Seychelles. The male was said to have lived 

 there for upwards of seventy years. These reptiles appear to 

 have been the largest imported up to that time ; the length of 

 the male was given at 4 ft. and the width at 3 ft. ; the weight 

 was estimated at 800 lb. The hamadryad, or king cobra, 

 was introduced this year. 



A strange accident, about which there is some mystery. 



