1896.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 505 
April 21, 1896. 
Sir W. H. Frower, K.C.B., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 
Society’s Menagerie during the month of March 1896 :— 
The registered additions to the Society’s Menagerie during the 
month of March were 86 in number. Of these 33 were acquired 
by presentation, 38 by purchase, 3 were born in the Gardens, 
8 were received on deposit, and 4 in exchange. The total number 
of departures during the same period, by death and removals, 
was 83. 
Amongst these special attention was called to:— 
1. A fine young female Gorilla (Anthropopithecus gorilla), 
purchased March 6th. This animal (brought home by one of the 
African Steamship Company’s vessels to Liverpool) was obtained 
at N’gove or Iquela in French Congoland. It is apparently from 
three to four years old, and is in excellent condition and fairly 
tame and good-tempered. The only specimen of the Gorilla 
previously living in the Society’s Gardens was the young male 
acquired in 1887 (see P. Z. S. 1887, p. 559). 
Head of female Gorilla, drawn by Frohawk. 
(Reduced from ‘Field,’ vol. lxxxvii. p. 481, 1896, by kind permission.) 
