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and the store keeper 1,650, also with heat and 
housing; the 9 keepers and 4 assistants got 
daily wages of from 2.10 to 3.50 marks, and 4 of 
them also got lodging and heating. 
The only other German Zoo* giving full details 
is Hamburg, whose Director received 14,000 
marks and housing, besides 700 1 marks extra for 
lighting-, heating and life insurance. Here the 
head keeper, who is also store keeper, is put 
down for 321 marks a week, the head gardener the 
same, rising to 35, and the 13 keepers 2:3 to 29, 
while 3 to 5 helpers were paid, by the day, 3.50 1 
marks. 
Rotterdam's Zoological Director receives a 
payment of 4,400 florins, and his. deputy 21,400;, 
apparently annually; the gardener in charge of 
the greenhouses gets apparently nearly as much, 
with 2,000, for he is lodged in addition; the head 
keepers for the animals and the gardens, respec- 
tively, receive 1,350 and 850 respectively, and are 
both housed at the gardens. The chief officer of 
the works is paid 1,400 florins, and the 14 keepers 
receive weekly wages of 11 to 12 florins. 
The Imperial Zoo> of Schonbrum, Vienna, was 
spending, at the time Dr. Loisel wrote, 3', 600' 
crowns annually to its Inspector, also housing 
him; a Veterinary Assistant, also housed, received 
1,600', and the General Overseer also had hous- 
ing in addition to a salary of 2,000 crowns; four 
"titular" keepers had 6,600' between them, and 
ten other keepers 13,680l 
For the information of readers we may men- 
tion that the values of the foreign coins mentioned 
in Mr. Finn's article were at the time of the 
publication of Dr. Loisel's work, as follows : — 
Francs, 25 to £; Dollars, 5 to 20/10; Florins, 
12 to £; Crowns, 1,000 to £40; 1,000 fcs. = 
£40; 1,152 florins = £96, 
JAMRACH'S. 
A subscriber has kindly sent us the following 
interesting article on the late Charles Jamraeh, 
which appeared in the first number of a well- 
known magazine twenty-six years> ago. 
We only regret not having a portrait of this 
famous old gentleman, but should any of our 
numerous readers lend one for reproduction in 
this Magazine, it shall be returned forthwith. 
The shop we are about to visit — perhaps quite 
the most remarkable in London — stands in a re- 
markable street, Ratcliff Highway. Ratcliff High- 
Avay is not what it was — indeed, its proper name 
is now St. George's Street, but it still retains 
much of its old eccentric character. The casual 
pedestrian who wanders from the neighbourhood 
of the Mint, past the end of Leman Street and 
the entrance to' the London Dock, need no longer 
fear robbery with violence; nor may he with any 
confidence look to witness a skirmish of crimps 
and foreign sailors with long knives; but, if his 
taste for observation incline to more tranquil har- 
vest, his eye, quiet or restless, will fall upon many 
a reminder of the Highway's historic days, and of 
those relics of its ancient character which still 
linger. Sailors' boarding-houses are seen in 
great numbers, often with crossed flags, or a ship 
in full sail, painted, in a conventional spirit pecu- 
liar to the district, upon the windows. Here and 
there is a slop shop where many dangling oilskins 
and sou '-westers wave in the breeze, and where, 
as often as not, an old figure-head or the effigy 
of a naval officer in the uniform of fifty years ago 
stands as a sign. There are shops where advance 
notes are changed, and where the windows pre- 
sent a curious medley of foreign bank notes, clay 
pipes, china tobacco-jars, and sixpenny walking 
sticks, and there are many swarthy-faced men, 
with ringed ears, with print shirts and trousers 
unsupported by braces; also' there are many ladies 
with gigantic feathers in their bonnets, of painful 
hue, and other ladies who get along Aery com- 
fortably without any bonnets at all. 
In a street like this, every shop is, more or 
less, an extraordinary one; but no stranger would 
expect to find in one of them the largest and most 
varied collection of arms, curiosities, and works 
of savage and civilised art brought together for 
trade purposes in the world, and this side by side 
with a stock of lions, tigers, panthers, elephants, 
alligators, monkeys or parrots. Such a shop, v 
however, will be the most interesting object of \ 
contemplation to the stray wayfarer through St. 
George's Street, and this is the shop famed 
throughout the world as Jamrach's. Everybody, 
of course, knows Jamrach's by name, and per- 
haps most know it to be situated somewhere in 
the waterside neighbourhood of the East End; 
but few consider it anything more than an em- 
porium from which the travelling menageries are 
supplied with stock. This, of course, it is, but it 
is something besides; and, altogether, one of the 
most curious, and instructive spots which the 
seeker after the quaint and out-of-the-way may 
visit is Jamrach's. 
The shop, which we find on the left-hand side 
as we approach it from the west, is a double one, 
and might easily be taken for two separate estab- 
lishments. The first window we reach might be 
passed as that of an ordinary bird fancier's, were 
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