ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, LONDON 



111 1901 certain persons raised charges against the 

 Society, complaining of the inadequate and unwhole- 

 some housing of some of the animals in the Gardens. 

 They endeavoured to advertise their grievances in the 

 cheap newspapers ; but the charges were ably met and 

 unanimously condemned at a meeting of the Society, 

 the Duke of Bedford (President) being in the chair. 



In 1902 the young male giraffe (Southern form) died. 



GREYY S ZEBRA, LONDON. 



The following animals were deposited by His Majesty 

 the King, who received them as a Coronation gift from 

 the Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia : five lion cubs (one 

 male and four females) and two Grevy's zebras 

 (females). Colonel Mahon presented a young male 

 and a female giraffe of the Northern form, the first 

 imported from Kordofan to this country for nearly 

 thirty years. 



