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though he could not recollect particulars.^ In Bartlett's " Wild 

 Animals in Captivity" the author, in an article on African 

 elephants (p. 63) which, from internal evidence, appears to have 

 been written about 1880, said : 



I remember, years ago, seeing a young elephant of this kind, which 

 belonged to a travelling menagerie, led through the streets of Cardiff. It 

 was advertised (and most justly) as a great rarity — I think, as a unique 

 specimen. . . . That it was African, and not Asiatic, was evident at a 

 glance. 



Jumbo was received on June 26, and at the scientific 

 meeting on the following evening Dr. Sclater announced its 

 safe arrival in the Gardens, where at first it was quartered 

 the eland house. About three months later Alice was pur- 

 chased of Kice for £500. With another elephant she had 

 been sent to London from Vienna, to which city Casanova had 

 brought them and other animals collected in the Soudan. In 

 November she was 3 ft. 6 in. high and 6 ft. 3 in. in girth ; the 

 corresponding measurements for Jumbo were 5 ft. 6 in. and 

 9 ft. 6 in. 



Commander Fenwick, of H.M.S. Harrier, brought home 

 and presented to the Society a king penguin from the Falk- 

 land Islands. Considering that the larger penguins were met 

 with by Cook on his second voyage, it seems strange that no 

 example of these flightless sea-birds should have reached the 

 Gardens till 1865. In the opinion of the Council this was the 

 only member of the group ever brought alive to Europe up 

 to that time. During its short life in the Gardens it attracted 

 universal attention. 



This bird was one of a dozen taken on board at the 

 Falklands, and all the rest died from refusing food. The 

 survivor was petted and played with by the sailors, and at 

 length induced by them to swallow some fat and fish ; from that 



* There can be little doubt that Bell was mistaken. Had two African elephants 

 heen exhibited at the Surrey Gardens the fact would have been known to every 

 working zoologist, and must have found its way into literature. Search through a 

 large collection of newspaper cuttings relative to the collection, and evidently 

 made in the office, shows no reference to the subject, nor does an African elephant 

 appear in the catalogue of the sale, which took place in 1855. But in 1854 there 

 were two " pygmy Indian elephants " in the Surrey Gardens. These were figured 

 in the Illustrated London News of June 10. 



