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species in particular are invaluable to him in field 
and garden; (3) that children should not be per- 
mitted to take part in the destruction of birds and 
egfgs, even of those species deemed injurious, since 
useful ones inevitably suffer also. — We are, Sir, 
your obedient servants, 
Bedford. 
G. L. Courthope, Major, M.P. 
Arthur Dendy, F.R.S., Professor of Zoology 
in the University of London. 
Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S. , Professor of 
Zoology in the University of Cambridge. 
S. F. Harmer, B\R.S., Keeper of Zoology, 
British Museum (Natural History). 
W. A. Herdman, D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., Pro- 
fessor of Zoology, University of Liver- 
pool. 
Sidney F. Hickson, D.Sc, F.R.S., Professor 
of Zoology, University of Manchester. 
H. H. Johnston, G.C.M.G., D.Sc. 
E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 
P. Chalmers Mitchell, F.R.S., Secretary, 
Zoological Society of London. 
Robert Newstead, M.Sc, F.R.S., Professor 
of Entomology, University of Liverpool. 
W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., 
Keeper of Ornithology, British Museum 
(Natural History). 
Montagu Sharpe, D.L., Chairman of Coun 
cil, Royal Society for the Protection of 
Birds, 
J. Arthur Thomson, LL.D., Regius Professor 
of Satural History in the University of 
Aberdeen. 
London, April 23. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
By John D. Hamwn. 
THAT the Berlin Zoological Gardens Association 
is being sued for ^10,000 damages by a land- 
lord whose block of flats adjoin the "Zoo." He 
claims that the menagerie assembled there — in- 
cluding both the caged animals and the Berlin- 
ers, who make too much noise while eating on 
the fashionable "Zoo" dining terrace — so dis- 
turbs the peace of the neighbourhood that ten- 
ants fbr his flats can only be secured with diffi- 
culty, 
THAT it was reported at a meeting of the Zoo- 
logical Society of London that on April 18 a 
Barbary sheep was born in the menagerie. The 
visitors to the Society's gardens in Regent's 
Park in April numbered 63,508. The total num- 
ber of visitors from January 1 to end of April 
was 152,140, a decrease of 29,848 visitors com- 
pared with the corresponding period last year. 
THAT Mr. Pocock describes in "The Field," 
June 8th, a new Chameleon : — > 
"Additions to the Society's Collection are 
nowadays so few and far between that special 
attention may be drawn to an Indian Chame- 
leon (Chamaeleon calcaratus) from Travan- 
core, presented by Mr. Kinloch. The dona- 
tion is of particular interest in that it adds a 
e new species to the Society's list. Africa 
and Madagascar are the home of the chame- 
leons, and most of the specimens presented 
to the Gardens belong to species inhabiting 
Cape Colony and the countries bordering the 
Mediterranean. Eastwards from the latter 
area the genus spreads through Arabia into 
India and Ceylon, where tjie one species 
above-mentioned occurs. 
The above specimen is tolerably closely 
allied to the common North African form 
(Chamaeleon vulgaris), and was by Gray and 
Giinther regarded merely as a vtriety of it. 
It differs mainly in having a higher occipital 
casque and in the presence, in the male, of 
spurs on the hind feet." 
THAT in reply to many enquiries re "Max" and 
"Moritz," the world famous Chimpanzees, these 
animals died in 1914 shortly after their return 
to Germany. 
THAT the arrivals in London from abroad during 
the past months have been nil, but in Liver- 
pool some twenty mixed Monkeys with a Chim- 
panzee have arrived. I know of no other arri- 
vals in Great Britain. 
THAT Sir James Frazer gave a lecture, at the 
Royal Institution, on the "Prosecution and Pun- 
ishment of Animals." He traced the system 
of blood revenge on animals to' the Mosaic law, 
that laid it down that "Whoso sheddeth man's 
blood, by man shall his blood be she9d." He 
showed that among many of the primitive peo- 
ples, not only were animals that had been the 
cause of loss of human life brought to trial 
and condemned to death, but the law was also 
applied to inanimate objects such as statues and 
trees, which were duly tried and if found guilty 
destroyed. 
Among the many curious cases mentioned 
was that of an aged cock at Basle, which was 
found guilty of laying an egg, and, on the 
ground that the cock was a sorcerer or devil, 
was condemned by the Ecclesiastical authorities, 
and the cock and the egg were burnt together 
at the stake. In England the law of Deodand 
existed until quite recent times. Under this 
system a cart wheel which was found guilty of 
killing a man was forfeited to the King. 
THAT a fox terrier, a tortoise-shell cat, and a 
white sabbit, mascots at a, camp in France, all 
sleep in the same kennel. 
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