BOVINE ANIMALS 



by the application of this instrument that we succeeded 

 in driving the animal to its destination safe and sound. 



In due course I was anxious to dispose of it to the 

 Zoological Society, who declined to purchase the animal. 

 I then offered it to the former Lord Derby, who also 

 refused it. 



I then offered it to the Society if they would simply 

 pay the freight, which amounted to £40. This also was 

 refused. The animal lived in the Zoological Gardens 

 from 1844 to 1846 ; after its death I proposed to the 

 authorities of the British Museum that they should 

 purchase the skin and skeleton, but this proposal was 

 declined. 



I prepared the skin and skeleton, and corresponded 

 with Mr. Blyth, the then curator of the Calcutta Museum, 

 who begged me to forward to Calcutta the skin and 

 skeleton for the Museum, as they had no specimen. 



This I accordingly did, and I believe that both are to 

 be seen in the Calcutta Museum at the present day. 



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