Mr. Charles L. Jefferson, the Actuary of the Society, died 
suddenly, in his office, on April 16th, 1902. Mr. Jefferson's 
connection with the Society began in 1873, as clerk to the 
Board, and his faithful service as ticket seller and as Act- 
uary, or chief accountant, covered a period of nearly thirty 
years. After his death the office of Actuary was abolished 
and the duties rearranged. 
The Gardens and Menagerie. 
The number of specimens exhibited in the collection 
during the year was : — 
Mammals ' . . . . 490 
Birds 943 
Reptiles 955 
Batrachians 62 
2,450 
These species were exhibited for the first time in the 
Gardens : — 
MAMMALIA. 
Primates. 
1. Papio dognera (P. and S.) Doguera Baboon. 
Hab., Abyssinia. 
A pair of baboons, the male of large size, were pur- 
chased in April from Carl Hagenbeck. They were 
said by him to have come from Abyssinia, and 
without doubt belong to this fine species, which 
has heretofore been little known. 
2. MicTocehus coquereli (Grand.) Coquerel's Dwarf Lemur. 
Hab., Madagascar. 
Four small lemurs purchased July 19th are referred 
provisionally to this species, although they appear 
to me to resemble more closely Milne Edwardes 
and Grandidier's plate of the head of Chirogaleus 
major,'^ of which their description has not yet been 
published. 
* Hist. Nat. de Madagascar, pi. 259, fig. 5. 
