REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION 



APPENDIX No. Ill 



MUSK-OX 



Letter addressed to the Commission by Professor W. T. Ilornaday, Curator, New 



York Zoological Society. 



New York Zoological Society, 



185th St. E. Southern Bouleyard. 



May 28, 1919. 



Dear Sirs, — My personal experience with the musk-ox species has been 

 confined to efforts to maintain that species here in the Zoological Park. It is 

 quite true that we have been very successful in keeping musk-ox specimens 

 alive, and rearing them to maturity in the, to them, unfortunate climate of 

 New York City, and it is also true that we 'have secured the best record thus 

 far in the longevity of captive musk-ox. The specimen which lived longest 

 we had with us for very nearly eight years. 



Musk-ox C3\i— Courtesy of Dr. \V. T. Hornaday, Zoological Society, N.Y. 



In addition to this I have read, and at times studied, every scrap of musk-ox 

 literature that I could obtain. Needless to say, I have always been keenly 

 interested in that remarkable animal. 



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