i.] THE SEORBTAUX ON ADDITIONS TO TUB MBNAaERIE. 505 



April 21, 1896. 

 Sir W. H. Plowee, K.O.B., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of iVIarch 1896 : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of March were 86 in number. Of these 83 were acquired 

 by presentation, 38 by piircliase, 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 line young female Gorilla {Anthropopiiliecus gorilla), 

 purchased Blarch 6th. TLiis animal (brought home by one of the 

 African Steamship Company's vessels to Liverpool) was obtained 

 at N'gove or Iquela in French CongoLind. 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). 



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Head of female Goi lUa, drawn by Froliawk 

 (Reduced from ' Field,' toU Ixxxvii. p. 481, 189G, by kind permisaion.) 



