Chap, IV: COLLECTIONS DESPATCHED TO ENGLAND. 65 



have done anything- in his power to have helped me 

 in my undertaking. 



On the 18th of August I despatched by Captain 

 Berridge to England, all the collections in Natural 

 History that I had made up to that date. They in- 

 cluded a second collection of skulls of various tribes 

 of negroes, fifty-four in number, in illustration of the 

 Anthropology of this part of Africa ; six skins and 

 seven skeletons of the gorilla ; one skin and two 

 skeletons of the chimpanzee, two skins and skeletons 

 of the large scaly ant-eater (the Ipi), three skeletons 

 of the manatee, one skeleton of Genetta Fieldiana^ 

 besides other mammals, and 4500 insects as specimens 

 of the entomology of the Fernand Yaz region. The 

 collection I am glad to say arrived in London safely, 

 and a great part of it was afterwards deposited in the 

 British Museum. I also sent a living specimen of 

 the singular wild hog of this region {P otamochcerus 

 alhifrons), and two live fishing eagles. The hog I 

 presented to the Zoological Society of London, and I 

 believe it is still living in their gardens in Regent's 

 Park. 



The whole of the mammals, including the skins and 

 skeletons of the gorilla, I sent to the British Museum, 

 with a request to my honoured friend, Professor 

 Owen, the Superintendent of the Zoological Depart- 

 ment, to select any specimens from the collection 

 that the Museum required, and present them in my 

 name to the national collection. I was much pleased 

 to learn afterwards that several of the sjDecimens 

 were accepted. I felt that I had done something to 

 repay the debt of gratitude which I owed to the large- 



