Zoo Notes 
each other in a most re- 
markable way in structure 
or habit, or both. Thus, 
in each family there 
are vegetable and animal 
feeders, arboreal, terres- 
trial, and aquatic forms. 
None of the agamas, how- 
ever, grow to the size of 
the large iguanas. They 
differ also in the mode of 
fixing of the teeth, which 
are set on the edge of the 
jaw-bones, while in the 
iguanas they are placed 
against the inside of the 
jaw-bone, this latter being 
the commonest mode of 
attachment of the teeth 
in lizards. 
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THE Zoological Society has sustained a sad 
loss in the death of ‘ Sam,” 
their only Polar Bear, who died 
quite suddenly on November Ist. 
A post-mortem examination made by Dr. P. 
Chalmers Mitchell and Dr. R. N. Salaman 
disclosed the fact that ‘“Sam’s” death was 
due to an aneurism of the aorta. It is thus 
some consolation to know that the cause of 
death was not a preventible one, while the 
fact of an aneurism occurring in a bear is of 
Polar 
Bears. 
Photograph by W. P. Dando, F.Z.S. 
THE POLAR BEAR THAT HAS 
LATELY DIED. 
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Photograph by W. P. Dando, F.Z.S. 
LESUEUR’S WATER-LIZARD. 
great pathological interest, since up to now 
the human subject only had been known to be 
so affected. ‘‘ Sam,” who had been just over 
eight years in the Gardens, was a very intelli- 
gent animal, and his habit of acquiring the 
umbrellas and sticks of the public has been 
much commented on in the press. It would 
never do for the Zoological Gardens to be long 
without so interesting and attractive an animal 
as the Polar bear, and it is therefore very satis- 
factory to find that “Sam’s” successor entered 
upon its residence at the Gardens 
almost immediately, though it 
cannot be said quite to fill the 
place of the deceased, since it is 
at present a mere cub, as indeed 
was “Sam” when he first arrived 
from Spitzbergen. The new 
comer stands a fair chance of a 
long life in the Gardens, for polar 
bears do well in captivity, more 
than one of the Society’s pre- 
vious specimens having lived in 
Regent’s Park for over thirty 
years. Cubs have also been pro- 
duced in the Gardens, so that 
it is evident the constitution 
of this typically Arctic animal 
is quite adaptable to our tem- 
perate climate. 
