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housed in a large building (close to the celebrated Brighton 

 Pavilion), which was reconstructed for its present purpose, and 

 opened in 1902. This Museum, as well as the Booth Museum, 

 is open free daily. 



The Director is Mr. Henry D. Eoberts, and the excellent 

 official guide-book is sold for the small price of one penny. 



The general effect of the Museum is very pleasant ; it appears 

 clean, cheery, light, and instructive. Among the more interest- 

 ing zoological exhibits, the following may be perhaps specially 

 mentioned : — Three stuffed Sudan Bush-Babies {Galago teng) 

 and two stuffed Hunting Dogs {Lycaon pictus subsp. incert.), all 

 collected by Mr. Leonard Gorringe near Eoseires, on the Blue 

 Nile. The specimens of Lycaon are particularly valuable, as 

 this predaceous beast rarely appears in that part of the Sudan. 

 An unusually large skull of a Crocodile, labelled as being from 

 Borneo ; and a Long-nosed Skate, caught off Brighton in 

 1908, which was exhibited alive in the Aquarium, and is said 

 to have weighed 170 lb., and been 6 ft. 3 in. in length, and 

 4 ft. 11 in. in width. 



3. Brunn am Gebirgb, Lower Austria. 



The firm of Karl Gudera, animal dealers and game exporters, 

 established in 1867, has its headquarters office in the Millergasse 

 in Vienna, and two establishments in the country to the south 

 of Vienna. 



One at Mauer, about six and a half miles from Vienna, I did 

 not have time to visit. Herr Fritz Schmeidler (Herr Gudera's 

 manager) told me that it is chiefly devoted to sporting dogs and 

 Skye terriers, and to domestic poultry. 



The second, the Tierpark at Brunn am Gebirge, about eight 

 and a half miles in a straight line from the centre of Vienna, is 

 more interesting to the general zoologist, and on May 3rd, 1910, 

 I had the pleasure of visiting this institution in the company of 

 Herr Schmeidler. It consists of a villa, farm buildings, and 

 garden on the slope of a hill. The garden is prettily laid out, 

 and includes a rock-garden, ponds for aquatic plants and a small 

 hot-house. Between the garden and the animal enclosures are 

 the sheds for storing the nets used in the capture of Hares, 

 Partridges, &c., in Hungary. The partridge-nets are 656 ft. 



