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Rh purchased on July 6th. This animal only lived for one month in the Gardens; the principal post-mortem appearance was the œdematous condition of many of the internal viscera. Three Chimpanzees and three Orangs have died during the year, and no fewer than twenty-six Kangaroos of various species. Of the latter some five or six appear to have suffered from a contagious fever. Two Ostriches, a Tiger, two Three-toed Sloths, and four Leopards were the principal remaining losses of importance.

The following is a list of the more noticeable additions made to the Menagerie during the year 1898:—

A fine young female Mountain Zebra (Equus zebra), bred in the garden of the Zoological Society of Amsterdam; a young male Leucoryx Antelope from Senegal; a young male Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), from Newfoundland; two examples of Forster's Lung-fish (Ceratodus forsteri), from Queensland, purchased of Mr. D. O'Connor, who has successfully conveyed from Australia to England four fine living specimens of this remarkable Dipnoan Fish, believed to be the first ever brought to Europe alive; a young pair of White-tailed Gnus (Connochætes gnu), presented by Mr. C.D. Rudd, F.Z.S., who kindly brought them from his park at Fernwood, Newlands, near Cape Town, in order to make a change of blood in the small herd of these Gnus in the Society's Gardens; a young male Lesser Koodoo (Strepsiceros imberbis), from Somaliland, being the third example of this rare Antelope received by the Society; an example of an apparently new African Monkey of the genus Cercopithecus (proposed to be called C. lhoesti), received from Congoland by the Zoological Society of Antwerp, and obtained in exchange from that Society; a gigantic Centipede (Scolopendra gigas), from Trinidad; a series of fifty-two large Tortoises from the Galapagos Islands, deposited by the Hon. Walter Rothschild on July 20th. Nineteen of these, from Duncan Island, appear to be referable to Testudo ephippium, and thirty-four, from Albemarle Island, to Testudo vicina; a very fine and large specimen of the Reticulated Python (Python reticulatus), which exceeds in size the specimen which lived for twenty years in the Society's Gardens; twelve African Walking-fish (Periophthalmus koelreuteri); an adult male example of the Duke of Bedford's Deer (Cervus xanthopygius), from Northern China; and a young male Siamang (Hylobates syndactylus) from the native state of Negri Sembilan, Malay Peninsula, being the first individual of this extremely interesting Anthropoid Ape that has reached the Society in a living state.

Year Book of the United States Department of Agriculture for 1898 has just reached our hands. As usual, this volume is not one alone for the agriculturist or horticulturist. In a large sense it is distinctly