ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



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AN ARTIST WORKING IN THE ZOOLOGICAL I'AKK 

 ? Zoological Society always has encouraged the use of the Zoological I'ark for the sculpture and painting of wild life. 

 Mr. Paul Herzel, a young New York artist, spent several months in the Elk Range making studies and finished 

 paintings of our beautiful herd of Wapiti. 



ciently recovers to partake of food, hut the 

 wound assumes a spreading character, with in- 

 dications of necrosis. This condition is so per- 

 sistent that the animal quickly weakens and 

 dies. The investigation of old records leads us 

 to believe that epidemics of this type have been 

 previously known in collections of kangaroos. 

 We arc seeking a microscopic diagnosis of this 

 serious condition, which appears to be quite 

 confined to the kangaroos. 



Our Service Flay. — Our Service Flag carries 

 sixteen stars with a gold star on the margin. 

 We are beginning to hear from members of the 

 Park force who fought in France. Howard 

 Engeholm. a keeper in the Bird House, recently 

 returned to Cam]) Merritt for demobilization. 

 He was a machine gunner and was severely 

 gassed. A member of the conservatory force, 

 James Doyle, is in the Greenhut Hospital re- 

 covering from wounds and gas poisoning. 



Elephant Acrobatics. — Our large male Afri- 

 can elephant. Khartum, recently gave quite a 

 crowd of visitors a very amusing time, when he 

 was furnished with a big crockery cask, with the 

 ends knocked out. as an object for diversion. 

 Khartum occasionally rinds time hanging rather 

 monotonously and seeks amusement in ways 

 that arc both serious and irritating to our con- 

 struction department. He has loosened great 

 girders imbedded in cement, bent the gates, 

 shattered doors and thrown hay at visitors. He 

 considered the huge cask distinctly entertaining 

 and kicked it distances of fifty feet or more, 

 and always with a hind foot. Tiring of this he 

 stood the cask on end and tried knocking it 

 over with a swing of his trunk. He finished 

 the performance by pushing the cask from a 

 kneeling position. We were surprised to note 

 that the elephant has not broken the cask 

 through a number of davs' exercise in the yard. 



