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male, who retaliated by rolling her over, and having adminis- 

 tered some rough punishment walked away. She rushed after 

 him, and bit him on the thigh ; on this he seized her by the 

 throat, inflicting a bad wound. Eventually Sutton managed to 

 separate the animals and get them, one after the other, into 

 separate sleeping dens at the back. On the Saturday following 

 (November 1) the tigress was reported, in Land and Water, 

 to be in a fair way for recovery. The growling caused a good 

 deal of excitement among the other animals, and a French- 

 man who was in the house at the time wrote to Frank Buck- 

 land, that, " to quiet them," he adopted the following measures : 

 " I ran up and down ; I agitated my hat ; I waved my hand- 

 kerchief to disturb them ; but they were agitated by so strong 

 anger, that my efforts were of little effect." 



The Prince of Wales was a generous donor in the last year 

 of the decade, for he presented to the Society two thars, two 

 wild boars, six Himalayan monauls, three horned tragopans, 

 a Temminck's tragopan, and a spotted turtle dove. Among 

 the introductions were the koala, or native bear of Australia, 

 which had long been a desideratum, the Tcheli monkey, and 

 the tufted umbre, a curious African bird, the hammerkop 

 (hammerhead) of Cape Colony. This example, purchased of 

 a Liverpool dealer, seems to have been the first to reach 

 Europe alive, though skins and skeletons were to be found in 

 museums in this country and on the Continent. 



When the reptile house was opened, in 1849, there appeared 

 in the Athenceum of December 15 a letter of protest against 

 the practice of feeding the serpents in public. It does not 

 seem to have met with support, for the subject attracted little 

 notice till 1876, when the Editor of the Animal World drew 

 Dr. Sclater's attention to the matter. Soon after letters and 

 articles appeared in the public Press, and some of the writers 

 were not content with trying to put a stop to a practice which 

 had nothing to recommend it, but charged the Society with 

 encouraging cruelty and " pandering to public brutality." One 

 essayist, in the Whitehall Review (April 27, 1878), protested 

 against " the Cawnpore Massacre enacted diurnally," and headed 

 his article, " Sepoyism at the Zoo." In 1880 there was some 

 correspondence in the columns of the Times on the subject. 



