HAMLYN'S MENAGERIE MAGAZINE. 
I feel sure you will be pleased to hear how- 
successful I was. 
I think I shall have over £1,000. 
With repeated thanks. 
Yours truly, 
(Signed) M. PAGET." 
] am indeed pleased that our joint efforts gave 
her Ladyship satisfaction, and I beg to assure 
Lady Paget that my own services and that of 
my staff shall be always placed at her disposal 
in connection with any future charitable meet- 
ing. 
That some dozen Indian Birds arrived from Cal- 
cutta consigned to Mr. Westley T. Page, of 
Mitcham. 
That there is a marvellous scarcity of Apes, Ba- 
boons, and the common monkeys. The African 
arrivals being 2 Chimpanzees- — private property 
— 1 small Mandrill, 5 Dog-faces, with 26 Grey 
Parrots, during the last five weeks. The arrivals 
of Indian small animals being practically nil. 
That certain large consignments are on the way 
That the Canadian Porcupines lately imported 
have given birth to several young ones — 1 at the 
Regents Park Zoological Gardens, and 3' at our 
Menagerie in St. George's Street. 
That the worthy Curator of the Reptile House, 
Regents Park,' Mr. E. G. Boulenger, has joined 
up, so we are informed, the Naval Air Service. 
We cordially wish him a pleasant time and a 
sale return to his numerous charges. 
That some American Horse-shoe Crabs arc arriv- 
ing. These are most interesting creatures, and 
are a great novelty for Aquariums and Zoologi- 
cal Gardens. 
That the Wireless Press correspondent of Berne 
says : — 
" Despatches from Berlin state that von Ba- 
tocki, the new "food dictator," is considering 
the desirability of slaughtering the meat-eat- 
ing animals of the Berlin Zoo. 
" For a long time the lions and kindred ani- 
mals have been living on inferior kinds of 
meat, to which they took unkindly. 
"Even these supplies are required for hu- 
man consumption. Experiments to ascertain 
whether they could live on other foods were 
not successful. 
"It appears certain they will either be sent 
to some neighbouring neutral country until 
the end of the war, or that they will be slaugh- 
tered. 
"Von Batocki is reported to have said that 
the Avhole zoo will have to be sacrificed within' 
the next month." 
In contradiction to the above, I quote a few 
lines from a letter just received from a Director 
of one of the Northern European Gardens : — 
"The two Sea Lions arrived safely. I have 
just returned from a trip to Germany in order 
to buy animals for our Gardens. The Ger- 
mans had plenty for sale, and I bought one 
splendid male Lion, a South African Gemsbok 
(Oryx gazella), a Sable Antelope (Hippotra- 
gus niger), a Blue Gnu (Connochoetes taurina), 
with some other fine animals. Visiting several 
Zoological Gardens, I found the animals well 
fed and in good condition, and almost as 
plentiful as before the war in spite of the 
great difficulties in getting proper food for 
them. At present we have no animals for 
sale." 
Our readers must now judge for themselves 
which is correct. Why these reports concerning 
the various Zoological Gardens on the Continent 
appear so often I cannot understand. 
That New York will help in re-stocking the Zoo- 
logical Gardens at Antwerp, according to a 
decision of the Board of Managers of the New 
York Zoological Society. 
The decision was made in response to an 
appeal from the Zoological Society of Antwerp, 
which stated that its gardens had been almost 
depleted since the German invasion. As soon 
as the Belgian organisation is prepared to take 
up the restocking of the Antwerp gardens a veri- 
table Noah's Ark will be sent across the ocean 
from New York. 
The New York Board has decided to send 
the numerous duplicates among the more than 
5,000' specimens in the Zoological Gardens and 
the Aquarium here. 
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