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marriageable at the age of 10 years. It is now 
my highest wish to obtain a new husband for her 
so that we may keep our "elephant factory" go- 
ing. But I. fear it will be difficult to get one. 
Another severe loss was the death of our In- 
dian tapir (I. malaganus) that had been in the 
garden for 14 — 15 years; and just as bad war is 
to lose all our anthropoid apes, that is 3 chim- 
panzees from which one, a fullgrown female, had 
been in the garden for 10 years, one oran-otan, 
and one gibbon. These apes, together with a 
lot of monkeys, all died from para-dysentry, catch- 
ing the infection from some monkeys we had re- 
ceived from East Asia. 
Moreover we have lost a young Cape buffalo, 
one Trroa buffalo, all our African ostriches, all 
our sea lions, one jaguar, several lions and 
tigers, and a great deal of smaller animals, es- 
pecially birds and reptiles. But at the same time 
a good many young animals have been born in 
the garden during the later years, such as blue 
foxes, gluttons, lions, two American bisons, one 
male wapiti, which again became the fathed of 
another male one by his own mother, bisons, 
llamas, Barbary sheep, skunks, porcupines, yaks, 
bears — we have 2 cubs at present, born this win- 
ter — one geranaco, axis deer, black bucks, rein- 
deer, kangaroos, etc. A collection of those ani- 
mals, born in our garden, we have been happy 
to present to the Antwerp Zoological Gardens. 
We have also bought a few animals during 
the war in addition to those we have had from 
you, and which have all in all been in good con- 
dition and of good vitality. I shall just mention 
one fyoung male giraffe, an excellent animal, 
that in a couple of years will be old enough to 
go with our fullgrown female giraffe, a pair of 
European bisons, and two big python biviphahus, 
that have grown very large since we bought them 
3 years ago, and are now 6 and 7 m. long. I 
am particularly glad to have obtained the two 
European bisons, as they will probably be more 
scarce in the future, now that the herds in the 
Bialowics Forest and the Caucasus are no longer 
protected. However, some time ago I had a let- 
ter from some one who seemed to know something 
about the thing, and who wrote that in the Lithau 
the bisons have not suffered from the war, but 
are just as numerous as usual. One of our young 
bisons originates from the Lithau and the other 
from the Caucasus; we are hoping they will breed 
in our garden. 
In the next time to come we hope to get some 
new animals, even if it will be difficult to obtain 
them. Before the war we generally bought from 
Germany, but it is only natural that there are none 
lor sale at present; we therefore shall have to de- 
pend upon England. 
In short, I think I may say that the Copen- 
hagen Zoo has done well during later years, con- 
sidering the circumstances. We have been able 
to procure food for our animals, even if it has 
been exceedingly clear, and we have not been 
obliged to kill one single animal for want of pro- 
per nourishment. 
We have been very pleased to have hundreds 
of returning prisoners of war as visitors in our 
garden, together with the crews from British and 
French men-of-war, stopping at Copenhagen on 
their way. We send word to the camps and 
steamers to say that all were welcome without 
payment, and were very glad to see the English 
boys and French poilus spending hours and days 
in our Zoo. I had great pleasure in showing 
many of them round myself and to speak with lots 
of young men who were exceedingly nice and 
seemed thankful for every token of sympathy and 
kindness. I hope that by now they have aH 
reached their homes and are going to see happier 
times. 
I also hope for. better times fir all of us who 
have to do with animals and zoological gardens — 
for even in this little happy country the years of 
war have been difficult for many of us. 
With best regards,, 
Yours, 
DRYER. 
P.S. — I have received all the copies of the "H;mi- 
lyn Magazine." 
GENERAL NOTES. 
By John D. Hamlyn. 
THAT a telegram from New York states that 
eighteen men and women scientists and natur- 
alists, headed by Mr. William Beebe, curator of 
birds at the New York Zoological Gardens, 
will sail from this city on February 26 to begin 
an exploration into the jungle of South America 
in the hope of bringing back a large collection 
of rare birds, snakes and insects. Miss Mabel 
Satterlee, granddaughter of the late J. Pierpont 
Morgan, the American banker, will accompany 
the party to study birds, while others, includ- 
ing a number of prominent educational authori- 
ties, will devote their attention to other sub- 
jects. 
THAT the American soldiers have found a new 
source of amusement in Hajgenbeck's Circus 
(says a Coblenz message to the "Manchester 
Guardian"). It is but a poor remnant of the 
curcus we knew in pre-war days. ■ Of the 800 
