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226 THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Committee, with a request that they would report as to the 

 expediency of making any alterations in the arrangements. 



On June 25 the Garden Committee^ met, and Dr. Sclater 

 put in a statement, from which it appeared that at the 

 Council Meeting of December 16, 1857, Mr. Gaskoin alluded 

 to the inconvenience felt at the absence of a Guide, and 

 moved "that one should be forthwith printed and published 

 at the Society's expense." Then the resolution given on 

 p. 124, as being moved by Dr. Sclater and seconded by Mr. 

 Gould, was adopted. Up to the date of the meeting of the 

 Garden Committee eighteen editions of the Guide had been 

 published, and the Secretary's profits for 1863, 1864, and 1865 

 were returned by him in his statement at £68 13s. 5d. 

 £88 9s. 5d., and £107 16s. 7d. respectively.! The Committee 

 reported that "the existing system had worked well, and 

 that it would not be expedient to make any alteration in it." 



To return to recent times — the meeting on February 20 

 was chiefly noticeable for the fact that it led to an alteration 

 in the bye-laws. Some motions were brought forward which 

 appeared to be thinly veiled attacks on Dr. Sclater, and as 

 such they were warmly resented by a majority of the Fellows 

 present, notably by Sir Henry Howorth, who uttered a strong 

 protest. Over thirty proxies signed by lady Fellows were 

 tendered in support, but they were valueless; for they bore 

 only a penny stamp, though so widely drawn as to be 

 practically powers of attorney, which require a ten -shilling 

 stamp. As a consequence chap. iii. section 4 of the bye- 

 laws, giving lady Fellows the power to vote by proxy, was 

 repealed.}: 



* Present : Viscount Walden (in the Chair), Mr. Robert Hudson, V.P., Dr. 

 Hamilton, and the Secretary. 



t To an article in Der Zoologische Garten (1872, S. 353-364) by Herr Ernst 

 Friedel, the author appends a note, which is worth quotation. " Der Guide to the 

 Gardens of the Zoological Society of London. By Philip Lutley Sclater, von dem 

 1871 schon 201,000 a Sixpence verkauft waren, ist noch in vieler Beziehung- 

 mangelhaft. Er erhalt nicht die Namen aller Thiere, und hat, unbegreiflich, weder 

 ein lateinisches noch Trivials-Namens-Verzeichniss." 



X Mrs. Rose Haig Thomas and Mrs. Charlotte Norman were present — the 

 first lady Fellows to exercise the right of personal voting — at any rate, in recent 

 times. It seems probable that in the early days of the Society lady Fellows 

 did vote ; but prolonged search at the office, No. 3, Hanover Square, has not 

 resulted in finding the date at which they lost the privileges referred to on p. 25. 



