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purchased on July 6th. This animal only lived for one mouth in the 

 Gardens ; the principal post-mortem appearance was the oedematous con- 

 dition of many of the internal viscera. Three Chimpauzees and three 

 Orangs have died during the year, and no fewer than twenty-six Kangaroos 

 of various species. Of the latter some five or six appear to have suffered 

 from a contagious fever. Two Ostriches, a Tiger, two Three-toed Sloths, 

 and four Leopards were the principal remainiug losses of importance. 



The following is a list of the more noticeable additions made to the 

 Menagerie during the year 1898 : — 



A fine young female Mountain Zebra {Equus zebra), bred in the garden 

 of the Zoological Society of Amsterdam ; a young male Leucoryx 

 Antelope from Senegal ; a young male Reindeer (Banglfer tarandus), 

 from Newfoundland ; two examples of Forster's Lung-fish (Ceratodus 

 forsteri), from Queensland, purchased of Mr. D. O'Connor, who has 

 successfully conveyed from Australia to England four fine living speci- 

 mens of this remarkable Dipnoan Fish, believed to be the first ever 

 brought to Europe alive ; a young pair of White-tailed Gnus (Conno- 

 chcetes gnu), presented by Mr. C. D. Rudd, F.Z.S., who kindly brought 

 them from his park at Fernwood, Newlands, near Cape Town, in order 

 to make a change of blood in the small herd of these Gnus in the 

 Society's Gardens ; a young male Lesser Koodoo (Strepsiceros imberbis), 

 from Somaliland, being the third example of this rare Antelope received by 

 the Society ; an example of an apparently new African Monkey of the genus 

 Cercopithecus (proposed to be called C. Ihoesti), received from Congoland 

 by the Zoological Society of Antwerp, and obtained in exchange from 

 that Society ; a gigantic Centipede (Scolopendra gigas), from Trinidad ; a 

 series of fifty-two large Tortoises from the Galapagos Islands, deposited 

 by the Hon. Walter Rothschild on July 20th. Nineteen of these, from 

 Duncan Island, appear to be referable to Testudo ephippium, and thirty- 

 four, from Albemarle Island, to Testudo vicina ; a very fine and large 

 specimen of the Reticulated Python (Python reticulatus), which exceeds in 

 size the specimen which lived for twenty years in the Society's Gardens ; 

 twelve African Walking-fish (Periophthalmus koelreuteri) ; an adult male 

 example of the Duke of Bedford's Deer (Cervus xanthopygius), from 

 Northern China ; and a young male Siamang (Hylobates syndactylus) from 

 the native state of Negri Sembilan, Malay Peninsula, being the first 

 individual of this extremely interesting Anthropoid Ape that has reached 

 the Society in a living state. 



The Year Book of the United States Department of Agriculture for 

 1898 has just reached our hands. As usual, this volume is not one alone 

 for the agriculturist or horticulturist. In a large sense it is distinctly 



