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tions that he saw there Monkeys, Deer and Birds, including 

 Cassowaries. 



60. Tokyo, Japan. — The Japanese Government Zoological 

 Garden is in the large Uyeno Park, where are also situated the 

 Imperial Museum, Observatory, Library, &c. Dr. K. Tayama, 

 of the Tokyo Imperial University, acting for Prof. Ishikawa, 

 was good enough to inform me in August 1908 that the Director- 

 ship was vacant : I have not yet heard if an appointment has 

 been made. Mr. Henry Scherren, in the ' Field ' for the 14th 

 of September, 1907, has given a short account of this collection. 



Mr. W. H. D. le Souef, Zool. Soc. of Victoria, 44th Annual 

 Eeport (1908), p. 12, mentions that there are also to be seen at 

 Tokvo freshwater Fish and Turtle hatcheries, a small but 

 good Aquarium, and, in the Imperial Botanical Gardens, many 

 aviaries for birds and some waterfowl on the ponds. 



61. Trivandrum, Travancore, India. — The Trivandrum Mu- 

 seum and Public Gardens, of which the menagerie forms part, 

 were founded in 1859. A sketch of the origin and progress of 

 these combined institutions has been written by Mr. H. S. Fer- 

 guson, the late Director, and published in the Eeport on the 

 Trivandrum Museum for M. E. 1075 (a.d. 1899-1900). The 

 present Director, who was appointed on the 2nd of July, 1904, is 

 Lieutenant-Colonel F. W. Dawson. 



Australasia. 



62. Adelaide. — The Gardens of the South Australian Zoolo- 

 gical and Acclimatisation Society were founded in 1879. The 

 present Director is Mr. Alfred C. Minchin. An annual report is 

 published. 



63. Melbourne. — The Gardens of the Zoological and Accli- 

 matisation Society of Victoria were founded in 1857. Mr. 

 W. H. Dudley le Souef is the present Director. An annual re- 

 port is published. 



In Melbourne there is also an Aquarium, where aquatic 

 mammals, birds, and reptiles are kept as well as fish, in the Exhi- 

 bition Buildings, under the control of the Exhibition Trustees. 

 Mr. James E. Sherrard is the Secretary. This Aquarium was 

 commenced in 1884 and opened in 1885, and is apparently 

 the oldest institution of its kind in Australia. Others have 



