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gorilla to England. It arrived at Liverpool alive, and the dealer who 

 bought it would have it that it was only a black chimpanzee, and under 

 that name it was shown in WombwelFs menagerie in diflferent parts of 

 England. A friend tells me he saw it at Scarborough, and that it died 

 there, and was sent to Mr. Waterton's, at Walton Hall, near Wakefield, 

 where the skin is now preserved, and thus anyone can satisfy himself that 

 it is a gorilla, and not a black chimpanzee, as the dealer called it. 



Seebohm presented some of the results of his visits to the 

 Petchora and Yenesei. Dr. Bowdler Sharpe contributed about 

 thirty papers on birds, and the President, Lord Tweeddale, 

 about twenty. 



The seventh volume of the Transactions, published in 1872, 

 contained sixteen memoirs, which included three on Dinornis, 

 and one on the Dodo, by Owen ; two by Murie on the Pinni- 

 pedia, and the important paper on the Lemuroidea by Murie 

 and Mivart. In 1874 the eighth volume appeared, with the 

 same number of contributions ; among these were two by Lord 

 Walden on the Birds of Celebes; others ^on Dinornis and the 

 Osteology of the Marsupialia, by Owen; two on Cetaceans, by 

 Flower ; a continuation of Murie's researches on the Anatomy 

 of the Pinnipedia, and a paper by the same author on the 

 Manatee. Three years later the ninth volume was pubhshed ; 

 this contained twelve papers, including one by Lord Walden on 

 the Birds of the Philippines ; one by Leith Adams on Maltese 

 Fossil Elephants ; a section of Owen's memoir on Dinornis 

 and one of the Osteology of the Marsupialia; the first part 

 of Kitchen Parker's treatise on ^githognathous Birds, and 

 papers by the Secretary on Curassows Tand the Rhinoceroses 

 now or lately living in the Society's Gardens. 



In the last-mentioned paper Dr. Sclater relates the story 

 of Jim, the great Indian rhinoceros, tearing off his horn : 



The male and female having been placed in adjoining yards, the former 

 made frequent attempts to raise the lower transverse bar of the massive 

 railing that separates the two enclosures by placing his horn under it. 

 After repeating these attempts several times, in spitej of the interference 

 of the keepers, his efforts were such that the horn became suddenly 

 detached under the violent pressure to which it*was subjected, and rolled 

 off into the yard. The animal appeared to be " much hurt, and roared 

 lustily for a few minutes. There was a considerable loss of blood from 

 the wound, which, however, healed in a few days, '^neat's foot oil being 

 applied to it to keep off the flies. 



