"HAMLYN'S MENAGERIE MAGAZINE. 



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BURGUNDY PASTE 

 prepared by Dr. Ganducheau showed how ordin- 

 ary meat when mixed with the paste could be 

 served up in an economical and yet palatable 

 fashion. We await the Doctor's account of the 

 manufacture of this paste which will shortly be 

 published in the Bulletin, with impatience. 



M. Kestner, the distinguished chemist, was 

 glso anxious for us to be the first to participate 

 of hi- 



NEW "SUGAR. 

 As a result of our colleague's successful re- 

 searches he has been able to make a beetroot 

 sugar containing 90 per cent. . crystalline sugar, 

 and 10 per cent, other substances. This product 

 which contains more food stuff than other types 

 os sugar can be economically manufactured in the 

 smallest of factories, and should prove of great 

 value to the country. 



Whipped Cream and Coffee sweetened with 

 this sugar was found excellent. Every lady was 

 presented with a small box of his sugar by M. 

 Kestner. 



GOFIO, 



a pudding made chiefly of flour and maize from a 

 recipe of M. de Guerne, was much appreciated. 



Major A. Piedallu, an apostle of economic 

 house management, had made for the occasion a 

 sweet homely drink flavoured with figs. 



The wines had been carefully chosen by M. 

 Jubier, the proprietor of the restaurant, who had 

 specially reserved for us a few bottles of Old 

 Ribeauville to drink to the restoration of Alsace. 



In short it was the opinion of all present 

 that the annual lunch was again a complete suc- 

 cess, and the chef, M. Lebessier, was congratu- 

 lated and thanked. 



It is more important at the present time than 

 ever before to test the value of new dishes, and 

 it is up to us to call in the help of science to dis- 

 cover new forms of food. We helieve, in spite 

 of the -ceptics and the few who mock at us, that 

 we are accomplishing work of interest and utility, 

 and we shall continue our researches. 



I am indebted for the above interesting re- 

 port to Monsieur Pierre Armedie Pichot. 



The World's Zoological Trading 

 Company. 



By John D. Hhmlyx. 



The long expected result has happened. 



This precious Company is now in Bankrupt- 

 cy. The greatest swindle ever perpetrated in 

 connection with Zoology has now come to an 

 end. I cannot do better than quote from an ac- 

 count published in "The World's Work: The 

 Trade in Wild Beasts," by Mr. Harold J. Shep- 

 stone, April number, 1919. 



Before dealing with this article I am fully 

 aware that the same writer has glorified this 

 Zoological Bubble in the general Press, and I 

 have wondered why and wherefore he has done 

 so. 



Without his magnificent assistance in this 

 respect, it would have burst long ago. 



Even when the one solitary consignment ar- 

 rived, flaring notices appeared in the general 

 Press. "Hordes of Animals Arriving." "Cap- 

 ture of the Wild Beast Trade." All senseless 

 notices surely written by an interested party. * 



And now for Mr. Shepstone's article. 



It is a general series of mis-statements, and 

 I shall deal with ..hem in order. 



" Hamburg was the principal depot of 

 the trade, and the Hagenbecks the biggest 

 dealers." 

 Quite right in those days. 



"The late Carl Hagenbeck's wonderful 



Zoo was built of the profits derived from the 



sale of wild animals he collected from all 



parts of the world." 



This is entirely wrong. The profits were made 



by Hagenbeck's travelling shows and animal acts 



all the world over. 



If Carl Hagenbeck had relied entirely on the 

 animal business he would have closed down long 

 ago. Again 



"More than once the late Carl Hagen- 

 beck boasted to me that his best hunters were 

 Englishmen and whenever possible he em- 

 ployed them." 

 Carl Hagenbeck, or any other German dealer, 

 never employed a so called English hunter in 

 his life. He never employed one because there 

 were none. I have been in this business for over 

 forty years and during the whole time I have never 

 known an_ English hunter, that is a man who 

 captures big game for dealers. 



There are, of course, plenty of shooters of 

 game, but they capture none. Again 



"When the British sportsman after many 

 - lonely months in the Bush hunting and trapp- 

 ing, turned up at Nairobi, Khartoum, Stan- 

 leyville .... with his caravan of living 

 creatures . . . . " 

 If Mr. Shepstone can mention only one English 

 hunter who has turned up at either of the above 

 places with his caravan of tnimals, I will give £20 

 to any Charity, he likes to name. In Nairobi 



