262 NATURE AND SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA 



specimen, or even a pair, to set up in their galleries. 

 Thanks to the energy and public spirit of Mr. Selous, 

 the Cromwell Road Museum has recently acquired a 

 fine pair, male and female, shot by the great hunter 

 in the Orange Free State. Time and extermination 

 run strongly in these days against the obtaining 

 of rare species; and the director of the National 

 Collection, Sir William Flower, may well be con- 

 gratulated upon having thus been able to save the 

 Natural History Museum from the reproach of 

 having secured no representative specimen of the 

 white-tailed gnu to hand down to posterity. 



