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years. With true British pluck, on his involuntary- 

 return to Bencoolen, he set to work to make new 

 collections; hunters were sent into the forests to 

 obtain more specimens, and draughtsmen were again 

 employed to make drawings. In a few weeks this 

 indomitable and versatile man — governor, historian, 

 linguist and naturalist all in one — had accumulated a 

 second collection which, if not as valuable as the 

 first, was at any rate a splendid addition to zoological 

 science. He had even succeeded a few days before 

 his departure in obtaining another clouded tiger from 

 the neighbouring forests ; it was younger and if any- 

 thing even tamer than the first. With these 

 creditable witnesses tb'his untiring perseverance and 

 industry he set sail for England in the "Mariner" on 

 April 8th, 1824. 



About this time Coenraad Temminck, the first 

 director of the Natural History Museum at Leyden, 

 and already known as a distinguished ornithologist, 

 drew up an account of the clouded tiger from speci- 

 mens—unfortunately only imperfect skins — preserved 

 in the museums of Paris and Leyden. In April 

 1824 he visited England, communicated his descrip- 

 tion to Dr. Horsfield, and himself examined a 

 mutilated skin of F. nebulosa which had been 

 sent over by Dr. Finlayson, then lately deceased, 

 and was preserved in the East India Company's 

 Museum in Leadenhall Street. It was apparently a 

 little later than this that an adult skin and skeleton 



