182 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITION TO THE MENAGERIE. [Mar. 17, 



evidence of similar monsters encountered in the vicinity of New- 

 foundland, has appeared in the pages of ' Appleton's Journal ' for 

 January 31, 1874. Among the latter the Rev. M. Gabriel has 

 stated that in the winter of 1870-71 two entire Cuttlefish were 

 stranded on the beach near Lamalien, which measured respectively 

 forty and forty-seven feet ; while more recently an example became 

 entangled in a herring-net near Logie Bay, whose body is said to 

 have measured nine feet, the shorter arms six feet, and the two longer 

 tentacula twenty-two feet. Steps are reported to have been taken 

 to preserve this last-named specimen. In connexion with the St.- 

 John's tentacle, a rough woodcut has been published in the * Annals 

 and Magazine of Natural History ' for January last ; and in the more 

 minute description given by Mr. Harvey in a letter to Principal 

 Dawson, there reprinted, the form and arrangement of the suckers 

 at its clubbed extremity are described. These consist, in the first 

 place, of a double row of very large suckers, measuring each 1| inch 

 in diameter, with twelve suckers to each row, occupying the centre 

 of the club-shaped expansion ; supplementing each extremity of this 

 double row is a cluster of smaller suckers, the group at the proximal 

 end containing fifty, and that at the distal one as many as seventy of 

 these. The smaller suckers are further distinguished from the larger 

 ones by their denticulated edges, those of the latter being smooth. 

 The additional characters furnished by this more complete account 

 will be of high importance for further identification, and serve to 

 distinguish this animal from its nearest allies Loligo or Ommatostre- 

 phus, in which the tentacular club is armed with four rows of suckers. 

 We await, however, still fuller details before attaching a positive 

 diagnosis. 



March 17, 1874. 

 Professor Newton, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



The Secretary called the attention of the Meeting to an important 

 addition that had been made to the Society's Menagerie since the 

 last Meeting. On the 7th inst. the Council had purchased of 

 Messrs. Cross and Jamrach, for the sum of £800, a young male Javan 

 Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus)* imported from Batavia. 



This was believed to be the first example of this Rhinoceros that 

 had ever been brought alive to Europe, although Mr. Blyth 

 (J. A. S. B. xxxi. p. 152) had put forward a theory that one of the 

 Indian Rhinoceroses exhibited in England some time since had 

 belonged to this species. 



This addition raised the representatives of the genus Rhinoceros 

 in the Society's Gardens to four in number, viz. Rh. unicornis, Rh. 



* The specific term sondaicus of Desmarest (Mamm. p. 399, 1820) appears to 

 be the earliest for this species. In 1824 javanicus was published by Geoffroy 

 St.-Hilaire and Frederick Cuvier in the Hist. Nat. des Mamm. pi. 309, and 

 was subsequently adopted by Cuvier in his ' Regne Animal,' by Schreber, and 

 by other authors. 



