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The Amateur Menagerie Club.



course, adults — with the gape-worms in the windpipe. In the

latter cases the worms were not paired, and apparently were not

breeding.


(To be continued.)



THE AMATEUR MENAGERIE CLUB.*


This useful and progressive Society was founded several

years ago. Its objects are to encourage the keeping of birds and

other animals in captivity, and to facilitate the importation of them.

It issues an Annual Year-Book, and, in normal times, a Bulletin

and list of specimens wanted or offered for sale. On the publication

of the second Year-Book in 1913 it was noted that the membership

had much more than doubled in the short space of twelve months,

and the book itself was for the second time very much enlarged

and some new features were added. Medals for breeding and

acclimatisation are awarded on the same lines as in our own

Society.


We have received the Year-Book for 1917, which would have

been noticed before but for the great pressure on our space. In

the very act of reviewing it we observed a notice of the Club in

our esteemed contemporary, 1 Le Chenil,’ from which we translate

as follows:


“ Many amateurs, on account of the times in which we live,

have to discontinue or at least diminish their collections of animals,

and it has been a pleasant surprise to receive from England the

sixth Year-Book of the Amateur Menagerie Club. This Association,

which consisted of sixty-four members in 1916, has even been

increased in 1917,” and goes on to remark, “ in spite of the absence

of most of his colleagues at the front or engaged on war-work,

the Secretary, Mr. Tyrwhitt Drake, has found means to collect

some papers so as not to impair the series of practical articles of

which the Year-Book gives an annual account. ... To sum up,

Mr. Tyrwhitt Drake may be congratulated on having issued, under

such present circumstances, such a pleasing volume.”



1 The Amateur Menagerie Club Year-Book, 1917.



