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THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



that the vacancies had been filled, the Council informed the 

 Annual Meeting of April 29, 1904 that the changes "had 

 been of great advantage to the Society." Mr. de Win ton 

 resigned towards the close of the year, and was warmly 

 thanked by the Council for his services; in December the 

 Council selected Mr. R. I. Pocock from a large number of 

 candidates, for the post of Resident Superintendent, and he 

 commenced his duties on January 1, 1904. 



The commissariat expenses for 1904 were less by £1,435 

 than they were in 1902, and the saving on the two articles of 

 meadow and clover hay in 1904 was over £850. 



Grant's zebra was received in 1901. This animal, the first 

 of its kind to reach England, was presented to the King by 

 the Emperor Menelek ; it is of the Burchell type, but the 

 ground-colour is white, and "shadow-stripes" are absent. In 

 the same year a Parry's kangaroo was deposited, and marked 

 "new to the collection." But the type certainly lived, for a 

 very short period, in the Gardens in 1834. Bennett described 

 it,^ and named it in honour of the donor, Sir Edward (then 

 Captain) Parry, from whom an interesting note was read with 

 regard to its habits, and Owen dissected it. Many birds new 

 to the collection were received, including cassowaries and 

 parrots, the open-bill, and the painted snipe. 



A fine young male eland from the Woburn herd was pre- 

 sented this year by the President. As particulars were given on 

 p. 109 of the Knowsley herd, the following statement of the 

 foundation and present condition of the Woburn herd, for 

 which the author is indebted to the Duchess of Bedford, 

 will be of interest. The herd was founded in 1892 wath 

 a pair obtained from the Zoological Gardens; since then 

 seventeen others have been imported. Fifty-four calves have 

 been born, of which thirty-two died (some shortly after birth) ; 

 three have been killed by accident, or slaughtered because they 

 were bad specimens ; ten have been sent away (mostly 

 in exchange for others, but three were presented to the 

 Australian Government). The present total consists of twenty- 

 eight, of which seven are males and twenty-one females. 



This year the Windsor menagerie was broken up, and the 



* Proceedings, 1834, p. 151. 



