574 PROP. w. RiDGEWAY ON [May 11, 



Mr. Pocock wrote to Dresden, and the then Director repHed that 

 the Dresden Museum had never possessed a Quagga, and had never 

 sold one to Gerrard either before, during, or after 1889. 



All doubt on this matter is removed by the following letter 

 from Gerrard to Mr. Pocock : — 



Natural History Studios, 



61 College Place, Camden Town, 



London, N.W., 



June 12th, 1909. 

 Dear Sir, 



The Quagga I sold to Tring was one I bought from 

 Mr. Frank of Amsterdam. It was an old mounted specimen, and 

 I remounted it. I do not know where Frank got it. The 

 Quagga which died at the Zoo was made into a skeleton. The 

 skin was bad. The skeleton is in the British Museum. 



Yours truly, 



Edw. Gerrard, 



Dr. Harmer, F.R.S., on recently examining the specimen in the 

 British Museum and comparing it y\rith the animal shown in 

 York's photograph, told me that he doubted if they were one and 

 the same animal. 



Mr. G. Dollman has kindly sent me the extract * from the 

 Museum Register. It puts beyond doubt that the specimen is 

 Grey's which died in 1864, years before York's photograph. 

 Mr. Gerrard is therefore wrong, and so is Dr. Renshaw f, who 

 states that the Museum specimen is the animal which died in 

 the Gardens in 1839. 



The siratements prove the following conclusions : — 



(i) In 1851 the Society purchased a female Quagga which died 

 in 1872. 



(ii) The skin was not preserved being in a bad state, but its 

 skeleton was mounted, though it is not that now in the Natural 

 History Museum. 



(iii) In 1858 Sir George Grey presented to the Zoological 

 Society a maZe Quagga which died in 1864. It is the mounted 

 skin, skull and skeleton of this male which is now in the British 

 Museum. 



(iv) It is certain that York's photograph represents a sjDeci- 

 men which was living in the Regent's Park. But as this photo- 

 graph does not represent the stuffed specimen iia the British 

 Museum (Sir G. Grey's male), it must represent the female 

 specimen bought in 1851, of which the skeleton was preserved 

 but not the skin, which was in too bad a state. 



(v) The Tring specimen is neither the female specimen which 

 was in the Gardens from 1851 to 1872, nor the male presented by 

 Sir G. Grey in 1858 and which died in 1864. It is the skin of a 

 qiiite different animal. 



(vi) Thus through the efforts of Mr. Pocock and Dr. Harmer's 



* The entry runs : " 64.7.2.3, Reg. no. lEquus quagga, male, stuffed skin and 

 skeleton, purchased of the Zool. Soc. (Sir George Grey, 1858)." 

 t Nat. Hist. Essays, pp. 186-7. 



