HAMLYN'S MENAGERIE MAGAZINE. 



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THAT the " East London Dispatch," South 

 Africa, states : — 



News of a thrilling adventure on the 

 Zambesi, in which a party of well-known 

 people from Johannesburg were involved, 

 savs the evening paper, is just to hand. A 

 fortnight ago Mrs. Froude and her two chil- 

 dren, Lady Ross Skinner and Dr. " Billy " 

 Davies, left on a trip to Victoria Falls. One 

 day last week the party indulged in a motor 

 launch excursion to Kandahar Island, which 

 is SJ miles above the Falls. Apparently the 

 party were on their way back to Livingstone 

 when a hippo charged full tilt into the boat 

 and made an enormous hole in the stern, 

 while the, brass rails that run along the sides 

 were twisted out of shape. The water rushed 

 in, but fortunately everyone kept very calm. 

 It is believed that the boat was not far from 

 the Livingstone landing stage at the time, 

 and this point the waterlogged boat managed 

 to reach. There is no doubt that the whole 

 party had a narrow escape. 



THAT the Council of the Royal Zoological 

 • Society of Ireland met on Saturday, the 

 President, Sir Frederick Moore, in the chair. 



During the week the following animals 

 were added to the collection — a pair of capy- 

 baras, two sooty monkeys, a green monkey, 

 a ring-tailed coati, a curasson and an elephant 

 tortoise. 



It is many years since an elephant tor- 

 toise has been on exhibition in the Dublin 

 Gardens, and the specimen just acquired is a 

 very fine example from the Seyhcelle Islands. 

 It weighs 84 lb. On board the ship which 

 brought it over it received the name of 

 " Betty,'' 



During the week, in spite of bad weather, 

 8,027 visitors entered the Gardens. 



THAT some wonderful monkeys have lately 

 arrived at the Zoo, and should be seen by 

 everyone. The Colobus and Gibbons are 

 are fine specimens. I trust they will survive 

 the English winter. 



THAT the Secretary of the African Society, 

 the Imperial Institute, South Kensington has 

 issued the following memorandum to its 

 members : — 



It is felt by the Council of the African 

 Society that if an effort were made at the 

 present time by members of the Sociely to 



enlarge the membership it would be most 

 successful — more especially as British respon- 

 sibilities in Africa will be widely increased in 

 the near future. 



There exists apparently an impression 

 that membership of the Society is confined to 

 those closely connected with Africa. The 

 Society, however, would welcome as members 

 all who take any interest in Africa, and it is 

 suggested that you might point this out and 

 so gain recruits. 



It is now an accepted idea that our de- 

 pendancies in Africa are a trust — that Britain 

 is a trustee. If this is so, every Briton is a 

 trustee and should take an interest in Africa. 

 This interest can be aroused and stimulated 

 by joining the Society and reading its Journal. 

 With a largely increased membership the 

 utility of the Society would be greatly 

 increased, and the Journal would become for 

 all what it is now only for a comparative few, 

 the recognised medinm of authoritive inform- 

 ation on Africa and its problems. 



This is an opportunity for the African 

 Society not only to encourage the study of 

 native languages and customs, matters geo- 

 graphical and ethnological, valuable as these 

 are in administration, but to shape the Society 

 into the most potent and vivifying factor in 

 economic and industrial development. 



The Subscription is only one guinea per 

 annum at present, though for members joining 

 after 1920 it may have to be raised to a guinea 

 and a half. It entitles Members to the free 

 receipt of the Journal, and to attend all 

 Meetings, Dinners, etc., of the Society. 



THAT a Glasgow paper reports it has suddenly 

 been discovered that London is without an 

 aquariam, and a writer thinks that it is a 

 reproach that the capital of the Empire, 

 almost among the great cities of the world, 

 does not possess a representative collection 

 of fishes. 



In its plans before the war the Zoological 

 Society proposed to establish an aquarium at 

 Regent's Park at a cost of £25,000. It could 

 not be done now for less than' ^"75,000, and 

 the Society has no funds to meet the 

 expenditure. 



THAT the "Times" reports that the Zoological 

 Society gave tne Committee of the recent 

 Jamboree 10,000 tickets at less than half price 



