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that yeai' from Natal, and then aged about 10 months ; the 

 other three were females, one bred at Knowsley, about the 

 year 1844, two imported from Africa in the year 1850, 

 having been probably fawned in 1849. 



From these females six fawns have been produced since 

 their arrival in the Society's Garden. 



1. ?,born July 29, 1853. 



2. (?, born July 4, 1853. 



3. $,born Jan. 10, 1854. 



4. ?, born July 8, 1854. 



5. ?,born July 8, 1854. 



6. ?, born March 3, 1855. 



Of these, one female has been sent to the Continent, and 

 the herd consequently now consists of three males and 

 seven females. One of the old females, and the eldest of 

 the fawns bred here, are now in young. 



The certainty of their reproductive power in the climate 

 of Europe is thus clearly established. 



The rapidity with which they attain their size is also 

 fully made out by the development of the first and second 

 fawns, not yet two years old, but already thirteen hands in 

 height; notwithstanding the disadvantages under which 

 they have laboured, as young stock, from too close con- 

 finement. 



The quality of the flesh as an article of food, according 

 to the unanimous evidence of hunters and travellers in 

 Africa, is exquisite. 



The amount of protection they require is not greater 

 than that which is given to fatting cattle in first-rate esta- 

 blishments. 



There is therefore no room to doubt that the herd now 

 possessed by the Society, if managed to the best advantage, 

 may be made the means of acclimating and estabhshing 

 in the parks of England a new animal, not less beautiful 

 than deer, and scarcely, if at all, inferior to venison as an 

 article of food. 



The accommodation which is afforded by the Society's 

 Establishment being inadequate to the number of Elands 

 which have thus accumulated there, it is absolutely neces- 

 sary that their number should be reduced, and that the 

 very interesting and important experiment of continuing 

 the herd so successfully commenced, should be carried on 

 elsewhere. 



In parting with the surplus stock of these animals, the 

 Council are naturally anxious that they should pass into 



