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The read the following Report on the Additions made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of October, 1923:— The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of October were 219 in number. Of these 50 were acquired by presentation, 26 were deposited, 29 were purchased, and 114 were born in the Menagerie.

The following may be specially mentioned:—

1 Puma (Felis concolor), from Bolivia, presented by Mr. Robert Macdonald on October 20th. 1 Jaguar (Felis onca), from Parnahyba, Brazil, presented by Mr. Louis F. Hamley on October 16th. 1 Serval (Felis serval), from Sierra Leone, presented by Capt. F. R. Ellis on October 22nd.

The exhibited, and made remarks upon, a collection of Autographs recently presented to the Society by Mr. Hugh S. Gladstone, F.Z.S.

Mr., M.A., F.Z.S., exhibited, and made remarks upon, (1) Vertebrae of Mesozoic Crocodile showing the course of intercostal arteries, and (2) a Jaw-bone of Ursus anglicus Gunther, from the Cherwell Gravels.