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it appears that this animal was as fully maned as the Nubian 

 lion, of which there was then a seven-year-old example in the 

 Terrace dens. In 1856 Alderman Finnis presented a pair from 

 Mesopotamia, and in 1858 the male was "more fully maned in 

 proportion to his age than the Cape lion next to him." 



One would imagine that sending bears to Berne was some- 

 thing like sending coals to Newcastle ; but in March, 1853, two 

 young ones were consigned to the Government of that Canton, 

 in exchange for " chamois or other animals of Switzerland." 



The difficulty of finding a mate for Obaysch was solved in 

 1854, when the Viceroy of Egypt presented a young female 

 (Adhela) to the Society, and a keeper was sent out to take 

 charge of the animal. She was brought home on one of the 

 Peninsular and Oriental Company's boats, and the experience 

 gained in the transport of Obaysch proved of great service. It is 

 not certain whether the two-toed ant-eater was exhibited ; but 

 the Secretary reported to the Council Meeting on September 24 

 that an example of this very rare animal "had been sent for 

 purchase to the Menagerie, but that it had died within two days 

 of its arrival." Thereupon it was ordered that £3 should "be 

 paid to the importer, the species never having previously been 

 in the Society's collection." 



Sir Stamford Raffles brought home, in 1816, the first clouded 

 leopard seen alive in England. Two were shipped; one died 

 on the passage home, and the survivor was sent to Cross's 

 menagerie at Exeter 'Change. In 1854 two males were obtained 

 for the Gardens, and this was the first time the species figured 

 in the list. The native pheasant, or mallee hen, one of the 

 mound-builders, was also exhibited for the first time ; and a 

 moribund young walrus was received on deposit, the price 

 asked being too high to justify purchase, even had the animal 

 been in good health. Mrs. Owen thus referred to the matter 

 in her Diary* under the date of October 15 : 



R. busy dissecting the walrus which lately died at the Gardens. The 

 man who had it to sell did a foolish thing in asking an unreasonable price 

 for it in the first instance— £750. The Society allowed the walrus to have 

 a place in the Gardens at the man's own responsibility, but would not 

 listen to such a sum. The animal died, and the man only gets the price 

 of a skeleton and skin. 



* " Life of Richard Owen," pp. 403, 404. 



