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the rapid increase in the cost of all fur, especially high-class 

 fur, is so great that this is a thing for which the market is 

 assured, and the value will increase very largely. And the 

 extraordinary thing to me is that nobody has ever thought of 

 it before, except that all the best breeders of sheep think their 

 own is the best, and the multiplicity of breeds of sheep in 

 England is too great already. 



I hope Professor Wallace will not think I have made these 

 remarks in any spirit of captious criticism, but what I want 

 to impress upon you is this, that unless I know the definite 

 authority for the various things, which have been stated as 

 facts, or stated without definite authority in this paper, I shall 

 have to look upon the origin, history, and peculiarities of the 

 Karakul sheep as a subject still remaining to be investigated. 



The CHAIRMAN : As the hour is already late, I propose to 

 wind up this discussion by saying a very few words. I think 

 we have all listened with the greatest interest and pleasure to 

 Professor Wallace's most able paper, and although the last 

 speaker is evidently not quite satisfied as to the reliability of 

 some of the statements which the Professor has apparently 

 made upon the authority of Dr. Young, we have nevertheless 

 obtained a vast amount of information which we had not 

 before, and a great deal of light has been thrown upon a most 

 interesting subject. I think perhaps Mr. Elwes may have 

 missed the statement made by Professor Wallace, that so little 

 was known upon this subject even by those who know most 

 about it, and that Dr. Young himself had had to correct state- 

 ments made before. He is learning, like anybody else, and 

 I daresay that now he is in a position to state that many of 

 the conclusions he formerly arrived at need modification. I 

 have in my own personal experience in a part of the world 

 where I lived for some years, Uganda, met with sheep of a 

 somewhat similar type to those described by Professor 

 Wallace, and when I saw his pictures just now of some of 

 these fat-tailed sheep, I was struck by their great resemblance 

 to sheep I had seen there. They were rather smaller, perhaps, 

 and a little more hairy, and, as we all know, in tropical 

 countries there is the proverbial difficulty of distinguishing 

 between sheep and goats; but it seemed to me that possibly, 

 as those sheep have fat tails such as those shown in the 

 pictures, they might make a good groundwork on which to 

 raise a cross. I am sure that the Government of Uganda is 

 always alive to the possibility of new industries, and will, 

 when they see Professor Wallace's paper, be struck with the 

 same possibility that has occurred to me. I will conclude by 

 expressing to Professor Wallace our warmest thanks for his 

 most interesting and instructive paper. 



