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HISTOEY OF THE LIVING COLLECTIONS 

 AT KNOWSLEY. 



By T. J. Moore, Corr. M.Z.S. Loud., President. 



Part I. 



When the Society did me the honour to elect me to the 

 office of President, and I was asked what subject I would 

 take for my Presidential address, I suggested the History 

 of the Living Collections formerly existing at Knowsley, 

 and known far and wide for many years, but now a mat- 

 ter of memory only to a few people well on in life. The 

 suggestion having been favourably received, I now proceed 

 to redeem my promise. 



The collection was a notable one, formed for a very 

 worthy object, very successfully carried out, and the only 

 records ever made are now quite unattainable, viz., the 

 " Catalogue of the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley 

 formed by the 13th Earl of Derby, K.G., President of the 

 Zoological Society of London, August, 1851 (Liverpool : 

 published by Joshua Walmsley, 50 Lord Street)." The 

 catalogue was the only one ever prepared, and was 

 written by myself for the purely business purpose of sell- 

 ing the living collection by auction on the premises by 

 Mr. J. C. Stevens, of King Street, Covent Garden, 

 London, the old-established natural history auctioneer. 

 This was speedily out of print. The other record was 

 prepared for private circulation and presentation by the 

 Earl of Derby, edited by Dr. John Edward Gray, of the 

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