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Zoological Collector. The Collection remained, it is need- 
less to say, a source of very great attraction to the Fellows 
of the Society and to the visitors to the Gardens throughout 
the summer, and tended very materially (as has been already 
stated) to increase the Garden receipts. 
The Council. wish publicly to express the obligations 
which are due from the Society to His Royal Highness for 
having placed the Collection under their charge, the result 
having been, as has already been pointed out, a very consi- 
derable increase of the number of visitors to the Gardens, 
and a marked augmentation of their general popularity. 
Moreover, of the animals mentioned above, the Prince of 
Wales was pleased to present to the Society two Tigers, 
two Leopards, an Elephant, two Antelopes, and two Tra- 
gopans. Andthe Council have great pleasure in announ- 
cing that The Prince of Wales has consented to accept the 
Society’s Gold Medal, which they have unanimously 
acreed to offer to His Royal Highness in acknowledgment 
of the valuable services thus rendered to the Society. 
A special sum of £600 was devoted in 1876 to the 
acquisition, from Mr. W. Jamrach, of a female Sumatran 
Rhinoceros, which had remained on deposit in the Gardens 
since the preceding July. This acquisition raised the 
number of these animals now living in the Society’s Col- 
lection to five, belonging to five different species, as will be 
seen by the following List of Rhinoceroses which have been 
exhibited in the Society’s Collection since its first institu- 
tion :— . 
1. Rhinoceros unicornis, Linn. Indian Rhinoceros, 
a. Male. Purchased, May 28, 1834. See P. Z.8. 1834, 
p. 41, and Trans. Zool. Soc. iv. p. 31. Died Sept. 19, 
1849. 
b. Female. Purchased July 5,1850. Died Dec. 14, 1873. 
*c, Male. Presented by A. Grote, Esq., F.Z.8., July 25, 
1864. See P. Z. 8. 1864, p. 373. 
d. Female. Brought from Calcutta by the Society’s Col- 
lector, July 25, 1864. Sent in exchange to the Jardin 
des Plantes, June 20, 1865. : 
2. Rhinoceros sondaicus, Cuv. Javan Rhinoceros. 
*a, Male. Purchased March 1, 1874. 
* The specimens marked with an asterisk are still living, 
