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Show 1896.] ON DRAWINGS IN THE KNOWSLEY LIBRARY. 981 I should again like to record my renewed thanks to the President and Council and Committee of the Royal Society for their valuable assistance, which has enabled me to carry on this work, aided by the liberality, first of all, of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, as well as of Mr. F. Du Cane Godman, Sir Henry Peek, and Mr. Alhusen. I desire as well to express my very grateful thanks to Sir William Flower, Director of the Natural History Museum, and all tbe other officers, first of all Dr. Henry Woodward, who have done so much to enable me to carry out the objects of the expedition. In conclusion it is my duty to speak in the highest terms of the intelligence, pluck, and perseverance displayed by my young assistant, Mr. Alphonse Robert, who refused to leave me when his life was in danger from staying with me. December 15, 1896. Lt.-Col. H. H. GODWIN-AUSTEN, F.R.S., Vice-President, in tbe Chair. The Secretary read the following report ou the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of November :- The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of November were 52, of which 31 were by presentation, 13 by purchase, 2 by exchange, and 6 were received on deposit. The number of departures during the same period, by death aud removals, was 126. Amongst the additions was a fine young male of the Arabian GazeUe (Gazella arabica) from Aden, presented, Nov. 30th, by Mr. R. G. Buchanan. Mr. Sclater exhibited two bound volumes of original water-colour drawings by Wolf and Waterhouse Hawkins, belonging to the Knowsley Library, which had been kindly lent to him for examination by the Earl of Derby. These drawings were of very great interest to zoologists, as containing many of the originals from which the figures in tbe two volumes of the ' Gleanings from the Knowsley Menagerie ' and Wolf's ' Zoological Sketches ' had been taken. The first and larger-sized volume (29 in. by 22 in.), lettered on the back ' Wolf's Original Drawings,' contained twenty-two water-colour drawings by Wolf, of which a manuscript list in the volume, written by Mr. T. J. Moore in 1871, gave tbe following particulars:- 1. Lemur. Madagascar. 2. Lemur. Madagascar. 3. Eland Antelope or Impoofo (female). Oreas canna. South Africa. (See 'Knowsley Menagerie,' pp. 27, 29, 30, |