PROCEEDINGS 
OF TIIE 
GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS 
OF THD 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 
1908, Vol. I. (January to April). 
January 20, 1903. 
Prot. G. B. Howes, D.Sc., LL.D., 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 December 1902 :— 
The registered additions to the Society’s Menagerie during the 
month of December 1902 were 30 in number. Of these 15 were 
acquired by presentation, 1 was born in the Gardens, and 10 were 
received on deposit and 4 in exchange. The total number of 
departures during the same period, by death and removals, 
was 141. 
Amongst the additions worthy of notice are two very fine speci- 
mens of the One-wattled Cassowary (Casuarius uniappendiculatus), 
from New Guinea, deposited by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, 
M.P., F.Z.S., on Dec. 30th. 
Mr. P. L. Sclater read an extract from a letter from Messrs. 
Stagmann, Ksselen & Roos, of Pretoria, dated Dee. 8th, 1902, and 
addressed to Major W. H. Birkbeck of the Remount Department, 
Johannesberg, from which it appeared that the hybrid Zebra, 
placed under the Society’s care by the King on July 19th, 1902 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1903, Vou. I. No. I. 1 
