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remarkable new horse" from the Semliki Forest, supposed 

 to be the same as that mentioned by Stanley in "Darkest 

 Africa," was referred to. On this occasion the word " okapi " 

 was introduced into the English language. At a later meeting 

 (December 18) Dr. Sclater exhibited two native bandoliers, or 

 waistbelts, cut from the skin of the hind limbs of this mys- 

 terious " horse," the story of which belongs to the final chapter. 



Eight silver medals were awarded. Mrs. Edmonston and 

 Mr. R T. C. Scott received this distinction in 1891 for the 

 effective protection accorded for sixty years to the great skua 

 by the families of Edmonston and Scott at Uist and Foula. In 

 1893 the efforts of Mr. Donald Cameron of Lochiel and Mr. 

 John Peter Grant of Rothiemurchus to protect the osprey in 

 their respective districts, were similarly recognised; and the 

 medal was also given to Mr. George S. Mackenzie, who had sent 

 many valuable animals from British Central Africa to the 

 Menagerie. In the following year Mr. H. H. (now Sir Harry) 

 Johnston received the medal for zoological investigations in 

 British Central Africa, as did Mr. Alexander Whyte, three years 

 later, for valuable services rendered to zoological science by his 

 researches in the same region. It was awarded to Mr. John 

 Ernest Matcham in 1900 in acknowledgment of his many 

 donations to the Society's Menagerie. During the last seven 

 years of the century he sent to Regent's Park 525 African 

 animals (57 mammals, 48 birds, and 420 reptiles). 



In 1892 the "Index" to the Proceedings (1881-1890) 

 appeared. The ninth edition of the Vertebrate List was pub- 

 lished in 1896 ; it contained the names of 3,044 animals (770 

 mammals, 1,676 birds, 420 reptiles, 80 batrachians, and 98 fishes) 

 — an increase of nearly 500 species on those recorded in the 

 eighth edition of 1883. 



With the end of the last decade the edition of the Pro- 

 ceedings with uncoloured plates was discontinued; and a new 

 series issued under the title of Proceedings of the General 

 Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of 

 London. The volumes had gradually increased in size, and 

 the last six of this series each consisted of nearly eleven hundred 

 pages. Mr. Beddard put in about fifty papers on compara- 

 tive anatomy, the only pathological contribution being one in 



