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properly described, it was a true kiang, and it has been generally 

 thought that the first example received by the Society was that 

 presented by Major Hay in ISSO."^ 



The larger elephant cost £420, and was a great attraction. 

 One visitor wrote to the Assistant Secretary suggesting that 

 the keeper should be dressed " in something of an Asiatic 

 costume," which could be made at a small cost, and put off 

 and on in a minute. The material was to be cloth or calico 

 and a sketch was enclosed to elucidate the description. "The 

 elephant thus attended," said the writer, " and placed in (what 

 will by-and-bye be) your beautiful North Garden, will fancy 

 himself at home, and visitors suppose themselves transported 

 into Asia." The wife of a helper was " allowed to sell, for 

 the use of the elephant alone, rolls, cakes, and fruit, under 

 the direction of the keeper in charge of the animal," but 

 she was not permitted to vend any fermented or effervescing 

 liquor. According to a paragraph in the Times of November 23, 

 she sold in one day to various visitors cakes and buns which 

 amounted to 36s., "all of which the elephant devoured." 



About this time the Council must have had some trouble 

 owing to interference with the animals by visitors, for copies of 

 the following notice were set up in the Gardens : 



LADIES ARE RESPECTFULLY REQUESTED NOT TO TOUCH 

 ANY OF THE ANIMALS WITH THEIR PARASOLS, CON- 

 SIDERABLE INJURY HAVING ARISEN FROM THIS PRACTICE. 



In 1S31 the King presented the Royal collection in the 

 Tower menagerie to the Society, but the animals were not all 

 cleared till the spring of 1832. In accordance with His Majesty's 

 wish, duplicates were sent to the Dublin Gardens ; others were 

 offered to Cross, who accepted some of them. On April 4 

 there were still in Mr. Cops's charge, at the Tower, two Arctic 

 bears, t a Bengal sheep, a female leopard, two emus, and a 

 cinereous eagle, which he was asked to accept, on condition that 



* Proceedbigs Zoological Society, 1859, p. 353, Mamm. pi. Ixxiii. 

 fNot, as one would suppose, polar bears, but brown bears {Ursus arcton). This 

 species is called the Arctic or European brown bear in early Guides. 



