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Bronze Medal of the Society was likewise given to the 
two keepers Michael Prescott and Arthur Thompson, in 
acknowldgement of their services on this occasion. 
Another important occurrence for the Society’s Mena- 
gerie in 1872 was the acquisition of specimens of two 
Two-horned Rhinoceroses, both of them new to the collec- 
tion, and one of them previously altogether unknown to 
naturalists. 
The first of these was purchased in February 1872, from 
Mr. William Jamrach, the well-known dealer in living 
animals, for the sum of £1250, which sum was charged to 
the extraordinary expenditure of the year. This animal 
was at first believed to be the Sumatran Rhinoceros, 
although it had been obtained in Chittagong, far from the 
generally recognized locality of that species. When, how- 
ever, a few months afterwards a specimen of the true Su- 
matran Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sumatrensis) was acquired, 
the differences between the two animals became sufficiently 
obvious, and the former was named by the Secretary the 
Hairy-eared Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros lasiotis) . 
Full particulars concerning these two animals have been 
published in the Society’s scientific publications. The 
Hairy-eared Rhinoceros is still alive and in excellent 
health and condition in the Society’s Gardens; but the 
Sumatran specimen, which appears to have been a very 
old individual, died suddenly in September last. The 
opportunity of comparing the two species is therefore, for 
the present, lost; but the Council have every expectation 
of being able to replace the Sumatran animal before long. 
The total number of registered additions to the Society’s 
Menagerie in 1872 was 1344. 
The most remarkable accessions to the collection during 
the year 1872 are given in the following List of species, 
which are not enumerated in the “ Revised List of Verte- 
prates ” above alluded to. 
