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to that establishment, believed to be the best Zoological library in 

 the world, was also nearly altogether the gift of the same generous 

 donor. The juxta-position of the library, and the museum in the same 

 building, the complete freedom from official trammels, and the great 

 facilities given to all students in the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, whether members of the Institution or not, render 

 that Institution, as we can testify from personal experience, the most 

 convenient, perhaps, of any in the world for the working naturalist. 



3. LlOXS J-S IlfDIA. 



Duringthe whole of my stay of nearly twenty-two years in India not 

 a single instaDce was recorded in the local periodicals of a Lion having 

 been observed in any part of the country, excepting in the province 

 of Kattywar, in the peninsula of Guzerat, to which locality, in the 

 general opinion of sportsmen and others, the species is now 

 restricted as an Indian animal. In the India Sporting Review for 

 January, 1856, I called the attention of its readers to this subject, 

 and endeavoured to elicit the latest authentic dates of the known 

 existence of Fells Leo in other parts of India. The meagre result 

 of this inquiry was embodied in the following passage which appeared 

 in my Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the Asiatic Society 

 of Bengal, published in 1863 : — "The Lion was extirpated in Hurriana 

 about 1824. A female was killed at Ehyli, in the Dumaoh district, 

 Sagur and Nerbudda territories, so late as in the cold season of 

 1847-8, and about the same time a few still remained in the valley of 

 the Sinde river, in Kotah, Central India. The species would appear 

 to be now exterminated in that district." I might have added that 

 I saw a caged young Lioness that had been brought from Sindby in 

 1844, or thereabouts, which died on the voyage to England. Greatly 

 to the surprise of Indian naturalists and sportsmen, Lions have since 

 made their appearance in parts of the country where they had been 

 supposed to have been long exterminated. In the Delhi Gazette for 

 August 23rd, 1864, we are informed that " Lieutenant Clarke, Eoyal 

 Artillery, whilst out shooting near Deesay, on the borders of 

 Kajpootana, was sadly mauled by a Lioness, and had to suffer ampu- 

 tation of the right arm." And in a letter dated March 19th, 1865, 

 Lieutenant- Colonel Ty tier informs me of "two Lions having been 

 shot within about six miles of Gwahor, the other day. A party of 

 officers were out small game shooting on foot, when to their horror 

 three lions sprung up before them, two males and a female. They 

 fired, one of the males fell dead, the other was wounded, and found 



