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was most graciously received. Four silver medals were 

 awarded in this decade. The recipients were : in 1872, A. D. 

 Bartlett (Superintendent from August 15, 1859, till his death, 

 May 7, 1897), for his services to the Society, and in commemo- 

 ration of the successful rearing of the young hippopotamus, 

 born November 5, 1872 ; the Sultan of Zanzibar, in 1875, in 

 acknowledgment of his donations of African animals ; in 1877, 

 Mr. Robert Hudson, in recognition of his valuable services as a 

 member of Council ; and, in 1878, Colonel Sir F. R Pollock, in 

 return for donations to the Society's Menagerie. For their 

 services in connection with the rearing of the young hippo- 

 potamus, Michael Prescot and Arthur Thomson, keepers, 

 received the bronze medal, when the silver one was awarded 

 to the Superintendent. 



Up to and including the year 1873 the interest of the 

 Davis bequest was applied in aid of the publication of the 

 "Zoological Record."^ For the rest of the decade it was 

 devoted to " popular lectures on zoology." The lecturers were 

 Messrs. Leith Adams, Carpenter, Clark, Flower, W. A. Forbes, 

 Garrod, Reay Greene, Harting, Huxley, Mivart Murie, Kitchen 

 Parker, Pye-Smith, Sclater, Bowdler Sharpe, and Tegetmeier. 

 Huxley's series, in 1878, on Crustaceous Animals and their 

 Organisation, was the most important. 



The subjects were interesting, and the lecturers men of 

 eminence. But the experiment was not a success, for, generally 

 speaking, the treatment seems to have been more fitted for 

 classes of professional students than a general audience. In 

 noticing the introductory lecture by Dr. Sclater, the Echo 

 (April 15, 1874) said : 



The beasts did not personally attend, as some of the junior portion of 

 the audience obviously expected, and their feelings would have been hurt 

 had they done so to find themselves constantly described as *' specimens " 

 of their respective classes and species, without any attempt at those per- 

 sonal sketches of character and biography to which many of them might, 

 not unreasonably, have aspired. Even the lamented Joe was referred to 

 as " an Anthropoid Ape " of the '* species Chimpanzee," and the afi'ecting 



* This annual summary of the work done by naturalists all over the world was 

 originally published by Van Voorst in 1864. In 1871 it was taken over by the 

 Zoological Record Association, who carried it on till 1886, when the Society 

 assumed the responsibility, and acquired the whole of the back stock. 



