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previously thrown into that of natural history. He 

 never, however, lost his interest in it, and always clung 

 to the hope that the opportunity would return when he 

 might take up and complete what he had so well begun. 

 The quantity of manuscripts he left behind him is 

 evidence of an immense amount of industry, but un- 

 fortunately their fragmentary condition and the length 

 of time that has elapsed since they were written, during 

 which the increase of knowledge has advanced with 

 rapid strides, make it impossible to publish them 

 with any advantage, as his friends at one time hoped 

 might have been done. 



While the work was in contemplation, he took great 

 pains and went to considerable expense in securing the 

 services of some of the best zoological artists available, to 

 draw on stone a large number of illustrations both of com- 

 plete animals and of details of skulls, teeth, etc. These 

 fortunately have been preserved, and have been most 

 liberally placed in the hands of Mr. P. L. Sclater and 

 Mr. Oldfield Thomas, to illustrate a work on Antelopes, 

 which the first of these gentlemen had projected many 

 years ago, but which was set aside during the period 

 of Sir Victor Brooke's scientific activity, in the hope that 

 it might have been accomplished by him. 



List of Sir Victor Brooke's Published Contributions 

 to Science 



On Speke's Antelope and the Allied Species of the 

 Genus Tragelaphus. P. Z. S. {Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society of London), 1871, p. 482. 



This paper, though the first that Sir Victor Brooke 

 published, shows throughout signs of the thorough 

 manner in which he had entered into the work, and of 

 the progress he had already made in mastering the 



