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by Mr. Selous in 1882, and then supposed to be 

 the last of its race. It was brought to England 

 to be mounted, and was exhibited at a meeting of 

 the Zoological Society in 1886, before being sent 

 back to Africa. The skull of the same individual 

 (8a) is also in the South African Museum. 



9. The fine bull white rhinoceros, shot by 

 Mr. Eyre in Mashonaland in 1895, was purchased 

 by Mr. Rhodes, who presented it to the Cape 

 Town Museum, where it is now mounted. The 

 skeleton (9A) of this same animal is also in the 

 Museum. 



10. The specimen shot in 1894 by the late 

 Mr. C. R. Varndell was sent to London to be 

 mounted. It was subsequently purchased by 

 Mr. Carl Jeppe, who presented it to the Pretoria 

 Museum, where it still remains. It is said to have 

 a good anterior horn 3 ft. long. 



11. A fine skeleton of a cow Rhinoceros simus 

 is now exhibited in the new Gallery of Comparative 

 Anatomy, at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. It 

 was obtained from the Cape, and the label bears 

 the inscription "Ed. Verreaux, 1846."^ 



In addition to the foregoing, there are various 

 other odd specimens of skulls and horns in various 



1 There does not appear to be any stuffed specimen corresponding 

 to this skeleton in the Jardin des Plantes collection. The rhinoceros 

 with long forehorn sweeping backwards which the casual visitor sees 

 mounted in the stuffed series is not Rhinoceros simus but a very line 

 specimen of the Indian species. This individual lived in the 

 menagerie of Versailles and was dissected in 1793 by Vicq d'Azyr 

 and Mertrud. 



