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length of its voyage to this country, and has recently died; 

 but as there is no reason to doubt that under more favour- 

 able circumstances this species will live in Europe as the 

 Eland, or its more immediate congener, the Leucoryx, 

 which breeds freely here, the Council hope that they may 

 succeed in replacing it. 



The reproduction of the Elands and Leucoryx, and the 

 consequent probability of success with other species of 

 animals indigenous to the Northern and Southern zones of 

 Africa, may appear to lose its difficulty on taking into con- 

 sideration the comparatively temperate climate in those 

 regions of the great wilderness. But in November last 

 the female Potamochere, a native of the Cameroons 

 River in Tropical Africa, was in sufficient health to produce 

 a perfectly matured litter of young, which, although born 

 at a most unfavourable period of the year, exhibited for 

 some days every appearance of being likely to arrive at 

 maturity. 



The Wapiti Deer having increased to a herd of six, 

 and having absolutely exceeded the means of accommoda- 

 tion at present available for them at the Gardens, the 

 Council have great pleasure in stating that a male and 

 two females have been purchased by Lord Hastings, and 

 are placed in the Park at Melton Constable. 



The place which they occupied in the Collection is now 

 filled by a magnificent pair of Persian Deer, which were 

 obtained at the commencement of the war on the coast of 

 Circassia, the extreme western limit of this noble species, 

 and have been recently presented to the Society by the 

 Earl of Ducie. 



The Bactrian Camel had long been a desideratum in 

 the Menagerie, when the Royal Corps of Engineers, on 

 their return from the Crimea, most hberally offered to 

 place at the Society's disposal a young female which had 

 been born in their camp on the Heights of Sebastopol 

 in February 1855. This interesting animal, w'hich is 

 far more hardy than the Dromedary, is now placed by the 

 side of the adult male of that species, which was presented 

 to the Society by the late Ibrahim Pasha, in 1850. 



The collection of Himalayan Ruminants, which already 

 included the Thar presented by Capt. Parker, and the 

 Wild Sheep of the Punjab {Ovis Vignei), presented by 

 Gen. Hearsey, has received a very remarkable addition 

 during the last year in the Markhoob, — a noble species 



