Samlgtta Jltota^ra JKajajme. 
EDITED BY JOHN D. HAMLYN. 
No. 9.— Vol. 2. 
LONDON, JANUARY, 1917. 
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DEATH OF Mr. A. E. JAMRACH. 
It is with very great regret that I record 
the death of Mr. A. E. Jamrach, of 180, St. 
George's Street, London, E., at midnight on 
New Year's night, in his seventy-second year. 
He was buried at Hampstead, Friday, 5th 
January. Mr. A. E. Jamrach succeeded to his 
father's business — the late Charles Jamrach — 
in 1801. There now remains of this remark- 
able family, Mr. William Jamrach, of Stoke 
Newington, Miss Jamrach and Messrs. Geo. 
and Jaky Jamrach. 
The late Naturalist was a fluent scholar, 
speaking some four languages, and an accom- 
plished gentlemen. 
JOHN D. HAMLYN. 
THE PRESERVATION OF EXPIRING 
SPECIES. 
By F. Finn, B.A., F.Z.S. 
In the Deer Sheds, near the South Gate of 
the Zoo, can be seen a stag which, though healthy 
enough in himself, has the melancholy distinction 
of being one of a dying species — a specimen of 
Pere David's Deer (Elaphurus davidianus), which 
has now been at the Zoo for nearly a year. As 
far as appearances go, the beast is not prepossess- 
ing, and is a poor object in comparison with most 
of those most graceful creatures, the larger deer; 
indeed, only the Moose and the Reindeer excel 
him in clumsiness, for he has large feet, a long 
head carried low on a short neck", and the queer- 
est and ugliest antlers carried by any deer, with 
no brow-tine and an enormous backward branch 
which gives the effect of horns set on the wrong 
way round. These very peculiarities, however," 
give him an interest all his own, and he has 
other strange points as well — a tufted tail, longer 
than that of other deer, and quite as much like 
a donkey is; hair reversed all along the middle 
line of the neck and back, from poll to rump, 
and two' hair-whorbs on each side, one in the 
