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THAT the additions to the Zoological Society’s 
menagerie include a Mongolian wild horse, a 
lion from Senegambia, a Cape hyrax, and vari- 
ous reptiles. Visitors to the Gardens during 
November numbered 28,560, over a third more 
than last year’s November total. From January 
1 to November 30 there were 1,482,039 visitors, 
the total exceeding last year’s by 653, 000. Gate 
money for the period, “£43,156, is more than 
double last year’s. 
_ THAT the Polar Bear cubs lately born in the 
Society’s Gardens are dead. Barbara is dis- 
consolate. Several interesting specimens have 
arrived lately, particulars of which shall be given 
in our next issue. 
_ THAT “John Daniel,” the gorilla, who has lately 
been indisposed, continues to improve. The 
swelling in the gland will soon subside and be 
normal. 
THAT Mr. Wilfrid Frost is proceeding to the 
Malay Archipelago on behalf of the Zoological 
Society, and is expected to return by the end of 
June. 
THAT a new Zoological Society has been in- 
augurated. It is not likely to prove a rival to 
the older institution in Regent’s Park, for the 
two have little in common. The Mitre Zoo 
Society, the newcomer, has benevolent, social, 
and intellectual objects. Its only connection 
with zoology is the entirely laudable one of help- 
ing those societies which are devoted to the 
interests of oud dumb friends, especially the 
smaller organisations whose needs are not so 
widely known as some of the larger ones. Mr. 
Colin Oliphant, who presided at last night’s 
dinner held at the Titre Tovern, Chancery Lane, 
‘said that there were no people more devoted 
to animals than the British. The Mitre Zoo 
Society did not intend to compete with other 
societies, but to help them in carrying on their 
humanitarian work. 
THAT Mr. W. T. Page received a small consign- 
ment on the S.S. ‘‘Malancha’’—2 storks, some 
ducks and bulluls. 
_ THAT there is no further news of a living Bronta- 
saurus. But I still believe in unknown monsters 
being in the vast African swamps. 
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The following cutting has been sent me by 
a correspondent :— 
THE BENONI MONSTER. 
It is not unreasonabie to believe that in 
secluded spots may be found the last of the 
ichthyosaurus, or the last of the plesiosaurus, 
or of some of the contemporaries of these an- 
cient inhabitants of the earth. The latest 
evidence in support of this belief comes from 
a spot on the coast of North Borneo, known 
as Benoni. Here in a cave by the sea there 
Borneo Company + was ee rece! 
of the place. They showed hien 
which the unknown creature had | 
sand when leaving its cave dwelli 
sea. Round about were the tracks 
ary crocodiles, which are numer¢ 
locality. But the track of the unk i 
very different to these. : 
The track of the crocodila is one 
uous line, caused by the dragging of 
and at intervals the marks of the fe 
tinuous line, but so much deeper < 
pronounced as to argue a much la 
heavier tail than the largest known cro 
ever possessed. The marks of the fee EY 
also there, but instead of being turned o 
ward from the body, they were tt 
ward, under the body. They also w 
larger than those of an ordinary 
Those are facts to which an Englis 
man, and an official is prepared to 
The natives, when questioned, 
that they had seen the animal, wh 
described as having the body of a hu 
dile, feet which turned inward, and 
snake-like neck, surmounted by a . 
resembling that of a huge snake. I 
suggestive of the plesiosaurus? 
some of your readers who are | 
natudal history can answer the ques io 
is inconceivable that those mo fish 
As a preliminary test, thane pa; 
built (chiefly of bamboo) round th 
of the cave where the monster resid 
—intact at night—were found enti 
them and forcing them up. Thes 
were destroyed from eu top. Nee 
as to mae it Sse that there! 
other exit to the cave from os 
stands, and a fine thing 
Adventurous ‘sportsmen. 
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