We are informed that M.
J. Verdier has been appointed secretary to the French Municipal Council, a post left vacant by the recent death of M. P. Legendre, 'M. Verdier is an engineer 'L'Ecole Centrale des came to Shanghai a professor to the Institut Franco-Chinois, while lately he has held the position of head of the Public Works Department. the left round the room to the right as one enters, they are:
1. graceful antelope with spreading horns, known to science as Aepyceros melampas, 2 Gemsbok, or oryx (Orur gazella), a large antelope with very long straight horns, '3. Topi (Damaliseus korrigumn), 8 largo antelope with rather short, crooked horns, and of a deep chestnut colour with a bluish sheen.
4. Steinbok (Rhaphiceros mel-antis), a very small antelope with. straight, sharp horns.
5. Warthog, a hideous member of the pig family with enormous tusk and known to science as Phaci chorus acthiopicus.
6. Thomson's Gazelle (Gazella thomsonii), one of the most beautiful and at' the same time plentiful of the numerous gazelles and antelopes in Africa, Tand 9, Grant's Gazelles (Gazel-grant), which are very like the Thompson's Gazelle, but larger with longer horns, buck, (Kobue ellipsiprywrge antelope with thick, curved horns and a heavy rough coat, deriving its name from the fact that it frequents the patches of rushes along the banks of rivers.
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