XX PROCEEDINGS. 



" Happy who walks with him! whom what he finds 

 Of ^ flavor or of scent in fruit or flower. 

 Or what lie views of beautiful or grand 

 In nature, from the broad majestic oak 

 To the green blade that twinkles in the sun, 

 Prompts with remembrance of a present God." 



It was a year or so (it may have been two) after the foregoing 

 article was published that. I find in my diary some notes on an 

 incident in which I was much interested at the time, the packing 

 and shipment of some live specimens of moose-deer at Walton 

 Cottage gardens, consigned to Victor Emmanuel, then King of 

 Italy, who was an enthusiastic acclimatizer of large game in his 

 grounds at Pisa. The following is an extract from an account of 

 this incident which I forwarded to the London Field. I may here 

 mention that at this time much interest was taken in acclimatiza- 

 tion, to forward which there were societies in London, Paris, and 

 elsewhere. In Great Britain the leading men in this direction 

 were Buckland, Grantley, Berkeley, Tegetmeir and others. I have 

 not heard much of this subject of late, but curiously enough saw 

 in a paragraph in my Morning Post quite recently a request from 

 the government of New Zealand for as many as fifty moose deer, 

 if procurable, to be forwarded from Canada to the antipodes. Of 

 course the deer would go to the south island where both pine trees 

 and snow are to be found, but what would their food consist of? 

 That would prove, I think, the crux of the experiment. 



It appears that Victor Emmanuel, imbued with the spirit of 

 acclimatization, had been procuring a number of the deer of the 

 New World through an agent who made known to our 

 provincial naturalist his majesty's wants with respect to the 

 monarch of the North American forest the moose. The right 

 man and the right place were selected ; but although in no part of 

 North America is the rnoose-deer more plentiful than in Nova 

 Scotia, living in our small forest areas nearer the borders of civi- 

 lization than anywhere else, so few of these noble animals are taken 

 young, and successfully reared, that but three could be procured 

 on that occasion throughout the province. 



The trio consisted of two cow-moose of the ages of two and a 

 half years and eighteen months, and a sprightly young bull-calf of 



