THE NILGAI ANTELOPE. 



"Amongst the riches which of late years have been imported 

 from India may be reckoned a fine animal, the Nylghau ; 

 which it is to be be hoped will now be propagated in this 

 country so as to become one of the most useful or at least 

 one of the most ornamental beasts of the field." 



Wm. Hunter on the Nilgai. Phil. Trans., vol. 61. 



Prominent amongst the many fine buildings of 

 London stands the noble museum of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons, in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Built 

 to house the great anatomical and pathological 

 collections made by John Hunter, it stands as a 

 perpetual monument of the labours of that dis- 

 tinguished surgeon. The professional visitor will find 

 rows on rows of preparations, ranged with greatest 

 taste and judgment in perfect order ; to the layman 

 the skeletons of long-extinct monsters and other 

 purely zoological exhibits will doubtless prove of 

 greater interest. Here may be seen the huge 

 ground sloth or megatherium the very specimen 

 described by Owen ; the great deer once inhabiting the 

 Emerald Isle and miscalled the Irish "elk"; and the 

 huge moa of New Zealand, taller than the tallest 

 ostrich. Whales and elephants, mice and humming 

 birds all are here; the animals are chiefly repre- 

 sented by skeletons or good dissections, but a few 

 stuffed examples may also be seen. 



The Hunters John and William were famous as 



