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since gave his services in the Council, ever evinced the 

 most active and zealous interest in the prosperity and 

 progress of the Society, on his recent return from Persia 

 caused a living female of the Gour to be brought down to 

 Trebizond, and thence shipped for the establishment in 

 the Regent's Park, where it is now recovering from the 

 fatigues of its long and tedious journey. 



The liberality of Sir George Grey, the Governor of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, has, together with many other gifts 

 of great importance, added a male Quagga to this portion 

 of the collection ; and the Council have received assurances 

 from his Excellency that the valuable series of South 

 African animals which he has already transmitted for the 

 acceptance of the Society will be followed by the remainder 

 of his collection. 



Pebissodactyla, 



1. Rhinoceros indicus. 4. Equus quagga. 



2. Tapirus americanus. 5. hemionus. 



3. Equus burchelli. 6. hemippus. 



The Artiodactyla contain two sub - families, — the 

 Suina or Hogs, and the Hippopotamina, constituting the 

 Omnivora of Professor Owen ; and the extensive group 

 of RuMiNANTiA, formerly held to be a distinct order. 



The Suina include about fourteen known species, of 

 which the three most remarkable after the Babirussa, 

 formerly presented by Capt. Sir E. Belcher, R.N., C.B., are 

 undoubtedly the Phacochere, the Potamochere, and the 

 Bosch Vark, all of which are now living in the menagerie. 

 The Potamochere is so rare, that, until the importation of 

 the male belonging to the Society, the museum at Basle 

 contained the only known skin of this singular inhabitant 

 of West Africa. A female having been obtained by the 

 good offices of the Directors of the Museum of Natural 

 History in Paris, three successive litters of this curious 

 Hog have been produced in the Gardens; and, as the last 

 have escaped the destruction inflicted by the mother on 

 her first offspring, it is now probable that their reproduc- 

 tion will go on steadily. 



The history of the Hippopotamus is too fresh in the 

 memory of the Society to require any extended notice in 

 this Report, further than that the Council have good cause 

 to congratulate themselves that they did not permit the 



