18/2.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 183 



February 20, 18/2. 

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



The following report by the Secretary on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of January 1872 was read : — 



The total number of registered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the month of January 1872 was 95, of which 2 were 

 by birth, 42 by presentation, 39 by purchase, 6 by exchange, and 6 

 received on deposit. The total number of departures during the 

 same period, by death and removals, was 83. 



The most noticeable additions during the month were : — 



1. A young specimen of the King Penguin (Apterodytes pen- 

 nanti) from the Falkland Islands, presented to the Society by Mr. 

 F. P. Cobb, Manager of the Falkland Islands Company at Port 

 Stanley. The bird (which arrived on January 9th, under the kind 



