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new studies were occupied by a long-vacation class of four 

 students from Cambridge, who worked at the comparative 

 anatomy of the Mammalia under the supervision of the 

 Demonstrator of Comparative Anatomy in that University, 

 Mr. J. J. Lister, F.Z.S. 



The Pathological Society, being anxious to avail them- 

 selves of the opportunities afforded by the Society's Gardens 

 for the study of Comparative Pathology, have formed a 

 Committee of their members with that object, and two 

 professed j)athologists are now regularly working in the 

 Prosector's rooms. Their investigations promise to be of 

 great scientific interest and value, not only to pathologists, 

 but also to the officers of this Society, as affording better 

 indications than have hitherto been obtained of the various 

 morbid causes affecting the animals in the Society's 

 menagerie. 



When the increased facilities now afforded for scientific 

 research by the Society shall become more fully known, 

 there is every reason to suppose that many anatomists will 

 avail themselves of them. 



The number of deaths in the Society's menagerie during 

 the year 1881 was somewhat in excess of the few previous 

 years, the increased mortality being consequent on the very 

 severe cold of the first six weeks of the year — the deaths 

 during January 1881 being more than double the average 

 number during the ten preceding years. There were, how- 

 ever, but few serious losses : the most important perhaps 

 were a male Giraffe (the last of those that were bred in 

 the Gardens) 14 years old, the cause of death being 

 tubercle of the lungs ; a Great Anteater {Myrmecophaya 

 jubata) , which had extensive inflammation of all the 

 tissues surrounding the submaxillary glands ; a White- 

 nosed Saki {Pithecia albinasa) ; the second Koala {Phas- 

 colarctos cinereus) and Red Wolf {Cants jubatiis) ; and 

 two female Kudus {Strejjsiceros kudu). Amongst the 

 birds the greatest loss was the Indian Darter {Plotus 

 melanog aster), obtained in April last. 



The Prosector has published, inter alia, the following 

 papers and memoirs in the Society's 'Proceedings' and 

 ' Transactions ' for the year, based upon specimens that 

 have lived in the Society's menagerie : — "On the Anatomy 

 of the Koala {Phascolarctos cinereus)"; " On the Male 

 Generative Organs of the Sumatran Rhinoceros {Cerato- 

 rhinus sumatrensis) " ; " Note on the Epithelium of the 



