1 82 THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS OF EUROPE 



In 1857 a collection of Himalayan pheasants arrived. 



In 1859 Mr. (now Dr.) Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., 

 was elected secretary of the Society, and he still fills 

 that onerous post with distinction to-day. 



In 1861 the deer sheds in the North Garden were 

 rebuilt, and the larger antelopes were removed to the 

 new house in the South Garden. Two eland fawns 

 were born, making a total of twenty since the bequest 

 in 1851. On December 14 the Prince Consort, Presi- 

 dent of the Society, died at Windsor. 



In 1862 Sir George Clark was elected President of 

 the Society. A pheasantry and kangaroo sheds were 

 built. 



In 1863 cattle-sheds and a new monkey house were 

 constructed. 



In June, 1865, the first African elephant ever seen 

 alive in England was received (in exchange for an 

 Indian rhinoceros) from the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. 

 This was the famous Jumbo, and in September a female 

 of the same species (Alice) was purchased. 



In 1866 a fire broke out in the giraife house, which 

 suffocated a female girafi'e and her fawn. In the 

 winter of 1866 a heavy snowstorm destroyed the 

 covering of the pheasantry. The birds (many of which 

 were Avorth £50 each) escaped into the park, but were 

 mostly recovered. 



In 1867 a young male walrus, brought to Dundee 

 from Davis Straits by a steam whaler, was purchased, 

 but did not live long. 



The list of donors in 1868 was long, and was headed 

 by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh. 

 An African two-horned rliinoceros, captured in Upper 



