Hamlim's Jttettajjerie Jttagajto. 
EDITED BY JOHN D. HAMLYN. 
No. 8.— Vol. 
LONDON, DECEMBER, 1915. 
PRICE ONE SHILLING. 
INTRODUCTORY. 
List of Subscribers, Oct. 16th to Dec. 4th. 
Dr. F. D. Baker, National Zoological Park, 
Washington, D.C., U.S. A, 
F. E. Blaauw, Gooilust, S. Gramland, Hilversum, 
Holland. 
Dr. Eliot, Earlstown, Lancashire. 
Dr. Lovell Keays, East Hoathley, Sussex. 
W. H. St. Quinton, Scampston Hall, Rillington, 
York. 
The Superintendent, Victoria Gardens Office, 
Bombay, India. 
A. Woodward, Mayville, Kingston-by-Sea, 
Brighton. 
The Director, Zoological Gardens, Copenhagen. 
The subscription for Vol. I., Nos. 1 to 12, is 
6/- post free. Only specimen copies can be sent 
at 6d. each. All subscriptions commence with 
No. 1. The price of this December Number is 
1/-, post free. There are 76 subscribers up to 
date. I am anxious to increase this number to 
100 before the end of 1915. 
Negotiations are in progress to place this 
Magazine on sale at the various railway book- 
stalls. Articles are on hand and are promised by 
the Leading Collectors and Dealers throughout 
the world. Many subscribers are asking for per- 
sonal recollections and adventures. These will all 
appear in due course. I trust my various readers 
will appreciate "Old Time" articles and reviews. 
The present day Amateur knows very little of the 
"Old Time" Menagerie, Zoos, and the various 
dealers of long ago. The short account given 
here of "An Old Time Menagerie" recalls a 
famous Menagerie of the past. 
Many interesting reproductions of old photo- 
graphs will appear from time to time. I have a 
collection of several hundred. The first appears 
in this issue, of which particulars are given on 
the other side. 
Advertisements are inserted at very reason- 
able rates. 
If you have not already sent in your 6/- sub- 
scription, might I respectfully ask you to do so? 
JOHN D. HAMLYN. 
SOME OLD TIME AND PRESENT DAY 
SHOWMEN 
at a Menagerie Sale in 1896. 
The interesting photograph appearing on 
page 5 was taken at a Menagerie Sale in 189'6. 
In the front, sitting down on the turf, are : — 
Bob Fossett, Tom Holden, with the Masters Bos- 
tock and Braham. 
On the front row, sitting down, from the 
left, among'st others are R. Anderton, Pat Collins,. 
F. T. Salva, Frank Bailey, John D. Hamlyn,, 
Heinrich Hagenbeck, Karl Hagenbeck, Billy Rus- 
sell, Lord George Sanger, E. H. Bostock, Ran- 
dell Williams, W. A. Upton, Claude Ginnett and 
Major Rowe. 
Standing up at the back, A. Fitt, Frank Bos- 
tock, Sydney Braham, Buff Bill, Tom Norman,, 
Francis Ferrari, Frank Charles Bostock and T. 
Read. 
Many of the above have left us and crossed 
the "Great Divide" where, I trust, they have 
entered into another sphere of usefulness. Their 
number, unfortunately, is great. They are R. 
Anderton, Frank Bailey, Frank Charles Bostock, 
Sydney Braham, Creber, Jimmy Chittock, Fran- 
cis Ferrari, Karl Hagenbeck, T. Read, Lord 
George Sanger, W. A. Upton, Randell Williams, 
Jim Walmsley, with others whose names for the 
moment I have forgotten. I believe it was a suc- 
cessful sale for the Proprietor. It was also a most 
enjoyable day for the company, for many of the 
above travelled hundreds of miles to be present. 
It was a reunion of Circus and Menagerie pro- 
prietors, Wild Beast dealers, and of the Show 
World in general, and my one and only regrel is 
that we shall never all meet together again. 
JOHN I). HAMLYN, 
