No. 181, 
ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
April 7th, 1914. 
Prof. EK. W. MacBrips, M.A., D.Sc., F.B.S., Vice-President, 
in the Chair, 
The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 
The Secretary, Dr. P. Caatmers Mircnect, F.R.S., exhibited 
the photograph of a female Orang-utan (Simia satyrus), 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. 
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