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222 THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



and Dr. A. Smith Woodward, begun in this volume, were con- 

 ckided by the last-named author in that for 1900, which also 

 contains Mr. W. R Ogilvie Grant's account of the Birds of 

 Hainan. This was based on the collection made by Whitehead, 

 who died of malignant fever, a martyr of science, at 

 Hoihow, June 2, 1899. 



The thirteenth volume of Transactions, published in 1895, 

 contained fifteen memoirs, illustrated by sixty-two plates. Of 

 these the most important were W. K. Parker's paper on the 

 Hoatzin, Mr. Beddard's on Anthropoid Apes ; Professor J. W. 

 Gregory's on Palaeogene Bryozoa, and those by Sir Edward 

 Newton and Dr. Gadow on the Dodo and other Extinct Birds 

 of Madagascar, and Dr. J. T. Jeffery Parker on the Dinornithidw. 

 In 1898 the fourteenth volume was completed and published, 

 containing eleven memoirs and forty-seven plates. The authors 

 were Mr. Boulenger, Dr. Brady, Dr. Bridge, Mr. Elwes, Dr. 

 Goeldi, Professor E. Ray Lankester, Mr. Oldfield Thomas, and 

 Mr. Vincent. Several of the papers dealt with Lepidosiren, 

 and that of Mr. Oldfield Thomas with the mammals collected 

 by Whitehead in the Philippines. 



At the close of the nineteenth century it is convenient to 

 take note of the great increase in the staff in the office and at 

 the Gardens. In 1828 both staffs consisted of less than a dozen ; 

 at the end of 1900 they numbered nearly 130. At Hanover 

 Square were the Secretary (Dr. Sclater), the Vice-Secretary * 

 (Mr. Beddard, also Prosector), the Accountant (Mr. J. Barrow), 

 the Librarian (Mr. F. H. Waterhouse), four clerks and two 

 messengers. The Garden staff consisted of the Superintendent 

 (Mr. Clarence Bartlett), the Assistant Superintendent (Mr. A. 

 Thomson), store-keeper; head-gardener. Prosector's assistant, 

 clerk of the works, clerk in the office, twenty-one keepers, 

 and three money-takers. Besides these there were twenty-one 

 helpers or assistant keepers, two butchers, two stokers, one cook, 

 one messenger, one propagator, two assistant propagators, ten 

 labourers for garden- work, two carpenters, two bricklayers, one 

 smith, two wire-workers, one engine-driver, one net-worker, 

 eleven painters, eleven labourers, and one timekeeper — in 

 all 115. 



* This office was revived in 1898, and again abolished in 1903 by the Re- 

 organisation Committee. 



