Chap. IV. COLLECTIONS DESPATCHED TO ENGLAND 65 



liave done anything in liis power to have helped me 

 in my undertaking. 



On the 18 til of August I despatched by Captain 

 Berridge to England, all the collections in Natural 

 History that I had made up to that date. They in- 

 cluded a second collection of skulls of Various tribes 

 of negroes, fifty-four in number, in illustration of the 

 Anthropology of this part of Africa ; six skins and 

 seven skeletons of the gorilla ; one skin and two 

 skeletons of the chimpanzee, two skins and skeletons 

 of the large scaly ant-eater (the Ipi), three skeletons 

 of the manatee, one skeleton of Genetta Fleldiana, 

 besides other mammals, and 4500 insects as specimens 

 of the entomology of the Fernand Yaz region. The 

 collection I am glad to say arrived in London safely, 

 and a great part of it was afterwards deposited in the 

 British Museum. I also sent a living specimen of 

 the singular wild hog of this region [Potamochogrus 

 albifrons), and two live fishing eagles. The hog I 

 presented to the Zoological Society of London, and I 

 believe it is still living in their gardens in Eegent's 

 Park. 



The whole of the mammals, including the skins and 

 skeletons of the gorilla, I sent to tlie British Museum, 

 with a request to my honoured friend, Professor 

 Owen, the Superintendent of the Zoological Depart- 

 ment, to select any specimens from the collection 

 that the Museum required, and present them in my 

 name to the national collection. I was much pleased 

 to learn afterwards that several of the specimens 

 were accepted. I felt that I had done something to 

 repay the debt of gratitude which I owed to the large- 



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