SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. 45 
colonial nation. Her flag waves around the world, and on more 
parallels of latitude than the flag of any other country. She has 
consuls in all countries, all of whom are well paid. English 
sportsmen, travellers and men of science go everywhere; and an 
Englishman who does not take an intelligent interest in the ani- 
mal life of the world is a rarity fit fora museum. Every Eng- 
lishman is proud of his great London ‘‘ Zoo,’’ and when he meets 
with an opportunity to adda rarity to its world-famous collections, 
he gladly embraces it.** Throughout the British Empire, there is 
no member of the royal family, or the nobility, no colonial officer 
nor native prince who does not feel proud to present fine animals 
to the London ‘‘Zoo.’’ Last year the list of the 268 persons 
who donated 575 living creatures, was headed by ‘‘H. M. The 
Queen,’’ who presented ‘‘One Lion,’’ and ‘“H. R. H. The Duke 
of Connaught,’’ who gave another. The gifts of the year 
1895-6—which were no more numerous than those of other years 
—were, of themselves alone, enough to stock a zoological garden 
of the third class. The list of gifts fill thirteen pages of the Re- 
port. There are chimpanzees, baboons, macaques and lemurs; 
polar bears, leopards, foxes, wolves and jackals; there are zebras, 
deer and river hogs; squirrels, kangaroos, eagles, macaws and 
other ,birds in great variety. There are crocodiles, pythons, vi- 
pers, lizards, turtles, tortoises, and batrachians in great variety. 
As an instance of the pride and interest which Englishmen take 
in keeping up the collections of this institution, consider ‘‘ War- 
saw,’’ one of the finest tigers ever possessed by the London Gar- 
dens. Colonel Stafford, of the Afghan Boundary Commission, 
found him, caged and stranded at a remote railway station on the 
eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, without a kopeck with which 
to pay his fare to Warsaw. He had already come a long jour- 
ney, from central Turkestan, and the journey from thence to 
London was little less than appalling. With commendable judg- 
ment, Colonel Stafford recognized the fact that a tiger from that 
northern locality would be a prize—if it could be taken alive to 
London. He finally purchased it, and despite the length and 
hardships of the long journey to the Black Sea, and from thence 
to England, the journey was safely accomplished, and ‘‘ War- 
*In some countries it often happens that the first act of a man who ac- 
quires a fine animal is to write to the nearest zoological garden, and say, 
‘What will you give me for it?”’ 
