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Show 1896.1 THE SECBETABT ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENA.GEBIE. 505 April 21, 1896. Sir W. H. FLOWEB, K.C.B., F.R.S., President, in tbe Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to tbe Sociefcv's Menagerie during the month of March 1896 :- The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March were 86 in number. Of these 33 were acquired by presentation, 38 by purchase, 3 were born in the Gardens, 8 were received on deposit, and 4 in exchange. The total number of departures during tbe same period, by death and removals, was 83. Amongst these special attention was called t o :- 1. A line young female Gorilla (Anthropopithecus gorilla), purchased March 6th. This animal (brought home by one of the African Steamship Company's vessels to Liverpool) was obtained at Ngove or Iquela in French Congoland. It is apparently from three to four years old, and is in excellent condition and fairly tame and good-tempered. The only specimen of the Gorilla previously living in the Society's Gardens was the young male acquired in 1887 (see P. Z. S. 1*887, p. 559). Head of female Gorilla, drawn by Frohawk. (Reduced from 'Field,' vol. lxxxvii. p. 481, 1890, by kind permission.) |
