ON LONGEVITY IN AN ORANG-UTAN. 485 
April 7, 1914. 
Prof. E. W. MacBripz, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., Vice-President, 
in the Chair. 
The Srcrerary, Dr. P. Cuaumers Mrircuett, F.R.S., exhibited 
the photograph of a female Orang-utan (Simia sabyr ws), kindly sent 
to him by Mr. W. H. D. Le Souéf, the Director of the Zoological 
Gardens at Melbourne. According to the statement of Mr. Le 
Souéf, this Ape had lived in the Gardens at Melbourne for twelve 
years in an open-air enclosure attached to a shelter without any 
artificial heat. Orangs were notoriously difficult to keep alive in 
captivity, and even in Singapore they seldom lived for two years 
after capture. Mr. Le Souéf’s example was certainly extremely 
interesting. In the Society’s own Gardens, a fine male Orang, 
obtained on Sept. 7, 1905, was still alive, and it was reported to 
have been in captivity for eight years before it came to London, 
so that it was still older than the Melbourne example and had 
shown the cheek-plates for the last two years. Chimpanzees 
were less delicate, but the average duration was not good. The 
Chimpanzee known as ‘“ Mickie,” which had been purchased by 
the Society on April 6, 1898, was still living, and certainly was 
the Anthropoid Ape known to have lived longest in captivity. 
The almost universal experience with Gorillas was that they lived 
only a few weeks after reaching Hurope, and, in consequence of 
this high mortality, the Secretary had for some years declined to 
encourage importers by refusing to buy. In one Continental 
Collection, however, a Gorilla had lived for several years. 
The Secretary also exhibited two photographs recently sent to 
him by Surg.-Major George Henderson, M.D., F.L.8., showing 
a number of specimens of the large-tailed variety of Punjab 
Domestic Sheep. The tails of some of these animals are so large 
that they trail on the ground, and a small cart is provided to 
carry the tail and enable the sheep to move about. One of these 
carts, harnessed to a sheep, was shown in one of the photographs. 
Dr. W. T. Cauman, F.Z.S., read a report on the River-Crabs 
(Potamonide) collected by the British Ornithologists’ Union and 
Wollaston Expeditions in Dutch New Guinea, containing the 
descriptions of two new species. 
This paper has been published in the TRANSACTIONS. 
Mr. Ouprietp Tuomas, F.R.S., F.Z.S., read a report on the 
Mammals collected by the British Ornithologists’ Union and 
Wollaston Expeditions 1 in Dutch New Guinea. 
The species obtained numbered 31, of which the apes of 12 
had been brought home by the Expeditions, 
