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the rapid increase in the cost of all fur, especially high-class 
fur, is so great that this is a thing for which the market is 
assured, and the value will increase very largely. And the 
extraordinary thing to me is that nobody has ever thought of 
it before, except that all the best breeders of sheep think their 
own is the best, and the multiplicity of breeds of sheep in 
England is too great already. 
I hope Professor Wallace will not think I have made these 
remarks in any spirit of captious criticism, but what I want 
to impress upon you is this, that unless I know the definite 
authority for the various things, which have been stated as 
facts, or stated without definite authority in this paper, I shall 
have to look upon the origin, history, and peculiarities of the 
Karakul sheep as a subject still remaining to be investigated. 
The CHatrman: As the hour is already late, I propose to 
wind up this discussion by saying a very few words. I think 
we have all listened with the greatest interest and pleasure to 
Professor Wallace’s most able paper, and although the last 
speaker is evidently not quite satisfied as to the reliability of 
some of the statements which the Professor has apparently 
made upon the authority of Dr. Young, we have nevertheless 
obtained a vast amount of information which we had not 
before, and a great deal of light has been thrown upon a most 
interesting subject. I think perhaps Mr. Elwes may have 
missed the statement made by Professor Wallace, that so little 
was known upon this subject even by those who know most 
about it, and that Dr. Young himself had had to correct state- 
ments made before. He is learning, like anybody else, and 
I daresay that now he is in a position to state that many of 
the conclusions he formerly arrived at need modification. I 
have in my own personal experience in a part of the world 
where I lived for some years, Uganda, met with sheep of a 
somewhat similar type to those described by Professor 
Wallace, and when I saw his pictures just now of some of 
these fat-tailed sheep, I was struck by their great resemblance 
to sheep I had seen there. They were rather smaller, perhaps, 
and a little more hairy, and, as we all know, in tropical 
countries there is the proverbial difficulty of distinguishing 
between sheep and goats; but it seemed to me that possibly, 
as those sheep have fat tails such as those shown in the 
pictures, they might make a good groundwork on which to 
raise a cross. I am sure that the Government of Uganda is 
always alive to the possibility of new industries, and will, 
when they see Professor Wallace’s paper, be struck with the 
same possibility that has occurred to me. I will conclude by 
expressing to Professor Wallace our warmest thanks for his 
most interesting and instructive paper. 
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