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J. H. Gurney, Jun., Esq.; Dr. Holub ; the Geological 

 Survey of India ; the Editors of the ' Journal de Conchy- 

 liologie'; Sydney T. Klein, Esq.; Prof. A. KolUker; 

 Dr. H. Lansdell ; Mons. F. Lataste ; Dr. R. Leuckart ; 

 Dr. C. Liitken ; R. Lydekker^ Esq. ; Professor K. Mobius; 

 Prof. H. Mohn; the Editors of the "^Naturalist"; the 

 Editors of 'Nature ' ; the Colonial Museum of New Zea- 

 land ; the Nottingham Naturahsts' Society ; the Oxford 

 and Cambridge Club ; Dr. Paul Pelseneer ; Prof. C. V. 

 Riley ; Alfred Sanders, Esq. ; Dr. R. ScharfF ; P. L. 

 Sclater, Esq. ; Dr. R. W. Shufeldt ; the South Austrahan 

 Zoological and Acclimatization Society ; Dr. Michele 

 Stossisch ;. E. E. Thompson, Esq. ; the United States 

 Fish Commission ; the United States Geological Survey ; 

 the University College of London; F. H. Waterhouse, Esq.; 

 and the Zoological Society of Philadelphia. 



III. GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK. 



1. Works and Repairs. 



Two important additions were made to the buildings in 

 the Society's Gardens during the past year, and seem in 

 each case to have fully answered the purposes for which 

 they were intended. 



The foundations of the new Dog-kennels or " Wolves- 

 and-Foxes Dens " were laid in 1886, and the plan for their 

 erection was spoken of in the last annual Report. The 

 Council thought it unadvisable to delay the completion 

 of this building any longer, and the Society's workmen 

 were accordingly employed upon it during the greater 

 part of the past autumn. Only the iron-work and the 

 stone-work were let out, the rest of the building having 

 been erected by the Society's staff, under the supervision 

 of Mr. Trollope, by whom the plans were drawn. The 

 whole building was completed in November last, and is 

 now tenanted by a series of representatives of the genus 

 Canis, which were previously lodged in several different 

 parts of the Gardens. The building consists of a centre 

 with four larger dens (12 ft. by 11), and two wings, each 



