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I should again lilce to record my renewed thanks to the President 

 and Council and Committee of the Eoyal 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 Eothschild, as well as 

 of Mr. F. Du Cane Godman, Sir Henry Peek, and Mi. 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. Heury 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 Eobert, who refused to leave me when his 

 life was in danger from staying with me. 



December 15, 1896. 



Lt.-Col. H. H. GoDwiN-ArsTBN, F.E.S., Vice-President, 

 iu 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 exchauge, 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 arahica) from Aden, presented, Nov. 30th, by 

 Mr. E. 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 Wolfs ' 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 iu 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 cawna. South 



Africa. (See ' Knowsley Menagerie,' pp. 27, 29, 30, 



