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The following gentlemen were elected ordinary members: Messrs. 
Cuas. T. Gray, J. B. Morrat, H. Brarp, and W. Tyson. 
Dr. GitL gave a summary of Mr. J. R. Sutton’s paper, ‘‘ The 
Winds of Kimberley.” 
Mr. P. L. Scuater, Sec. Z.S. Lond., on the invitation of the 
President, addressed the Society on the subject of a Zoological 
Garden for Cape Town: 
Mr. Sclater, on bringing the subject before the Society, said he 
was naturally much interested in it, seeing that for the past forty 
years he had had the honour of occupying the position of Secretary 
to the Zoological Society of London. It was naturally, on that 
account, hig endeavour on every opportune occasion to interest 
others in this particular branch of science. In bringing the subject 
before them, he proposed to divide his remarks into three parts. 
In the first place, he would say a few words about the value of 
zoological gardens generally; secondly, he would refer to the 
special value of such an institution to Cape Town; and thirdly, 
he would suggest one or two ideas with respect to the most practical 
method of promoting such an interesting and instructive scheme. 
In so progressive a city as Cape Town it was hardly necessary for 
him to labour upon the point of the educational importance of such 
an institution. As a means of scientific study of various animals, it 
offered advantages to the student and observer which could not 
otherwise be obtainable without long and tedious journeys into the 
remote parts of the country. Every foremost nation of Hurope had 
its ‘‘ Zoo,” and France deserved the prime order of merit for having, 
in the beginning of the present century, taken the initiative in this 
branch of natural history by laying the foundations of the world- 
famed Jardin des Plantes. In Holland also there were excellent 
Zoological Gardens, particularly at Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and the 
Hague; while at Berlin, Cologne, Frankfort, Vienna, and other 
cities, the same method of combining instruction with innocent 
amusement was carried out. All the large cities of America, such 
as Washington, Philadelphia, and New York, were likewise provided 
with such institutions. In Australia, Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth 
had their Zoological Gardens, and other important and growing 
communities in that part of the globe were following suit. 
At the present moment the only Zoological Garden on the con- 
tinent of Africa was the small but well-kept enclosure at Cairo, 
under the direction of Mr. Stanley Flower, the talented son of the 
late Sir William Flower, formerly Director of the British Museum. 
Mr. Sclater was also aware that Pretoria, in the Transvaal Republic, 
wanted to have its Zoological Garden, and he had been much pleased 
