126 NATURAL HISTORY ESSAYS 



an immature female then in Bullock's Museum and 

 afterwards acquired for the National Collection, In 

 1 8 19, Cuvier observed horns of this species in the 

 Bordeaux Museum. Five years later, Dr. A. W, 

 Otto figured the addax under the name of Antilope 

 suhirosa from a fresh specimen which had died in a 

 menagerie — probably the first living addax to be 

 imported into Europe. His paper "Ueber eine 

 Neue Antilopenart die Aniilope suturosa" was pub- 

 lished in the twelfth volume of the Proceedings of 

 the Leopoldino-Carolinian Academy. Continuing 

 the chain of facts, in 1827 another specimen was 

 living in the Jardin des Plantes at Paris ; while 

 about this time Dr. Rlippell, of P>ankfort, was the 

 first European scientist to observe it in its native 

 haunts. He found the addax in Nubia, between 

 Ambukol and Maraza, and a pair obtained by him in 

 this locality are still in the Leyden Museum. 

 "Cornubus, rugarum ambitu contortis, in laeve 

 fastigium exacutis, lyratis." Such was RiippeH's 

 description of the horns. Strange coincidence ! he 

 used the same language, almost word for word, as 

 Pliny had employed centuries before ! One wonders 

 if the doctor had previously read the Roman writer's 

 Historia Nattiralis. 



Reverting to menagerie specimens, we find that 

 in 1845 a young addax was born in Lord Derby's 

 menagerie at Knowsley Hall — probably the first ever 

 born in captivity — and was one of the two male 



