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I should again like to record my renewed thanks to the President 
and Council and Committee of the Royal Society for their valuable 
assistance, which has enabled me to carry on this work, aided by 
the liberality, first of all, of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, as well as 
of Mr. F. Du Cane Godman, Sir Henry Peek, and Mr. Alhusen. 
I desire as well to express my very grateful thanks to Sir 
William Flower, Director of the Natural History Museum, and all 
the other officers, first of all Dr. Henry Woodward, who have 
done so much to enable me to carry out the objects of the 
expedition. ) 
In conclusion it is my duty to speak in the highest terms of the 
intelligence, pluck, and perseverance displayed by my young as- 
sistant, Mr. Alphonse Robert, who refused to leave me when his 
life was in danger from staying with me. 
December 15, 1896. 
Lt.-Col. H. H. Gopwin-Avstein, F.R.S., Vice-President, 
in the Chair. 
The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 
Society’s Menagerie during the month of November :— 
The registered additions to the Society’s Menagerie during the 
month of November were 52, of which 31 were by presentation, 
13 by purchase, 2 by exchange, and 6 were received on deposit. 
The number of departures during the same period, by death and 
removals, was 126. 
Amongst the additions was a fine young male of the Arabian 
Gazelle (Gazella arabica) from Aden, presented, Noy. 30th, by 
Mr. R. G. Buchanan. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited two bound volumes of original water- 
colour drawings by Wolf and Waterhouse Hawkins, belonging to 
the Knowsley Library, which had been kindly lent to him for 
examination by the Earl of Derby. These drawings were of very 
great interest to zoologists, as containing many of the originals 
from which the figures in the two volumes of the ‘ Gleanings from 
the Knowsley Menagerie’ and Wolt’s ‘ Zoological Sketches ’ had 
been taken. 
The first and larger-sized volume (29 in. by 22 in.), lettered on 
the back * Wolf’s Original Drawings,’ contained twenty-two water- 
colour drawings by Wolf, of which a manuscript list in the 
volume, written by Mr. T. J. Moore in 1871, gave the following 
particulars : — 
1. Lemur. Madagascar. 
2. Lemur.. Madagascar. 
3. Eland Antelope or Impoofo (female). Oreas canna. South 
Africa. (See ‘Knowsley Menagerie, pp. 27, 29, 30, 
