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British Museum, printed in folio in 1850, and illustrated 

 by 59 chromolithographs of hoofed quadrupeds from draw- 

 ings made from the living objects by Mr. B. Waterhouse 

 Hawkins, the well-known zoological artist, who sub- 

 sequently modelled the restorations in the grounds of the 

 Crystal Palace, Sydenham, of the huge Saurian and other 

 extinct animals, which models are still to be seen there. 

 A preliminary volume contains similar illustrations of 

 animals and birds, by Edward Lear. 



Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, thirteenth Earl of 

 Derby, succeeded to the title and estates of his father, the 

 twelfth Earl, in 1834, whose taste for side issues of 

 natural history was devoted for many years to the breed- 

 ing and training of fighting cocks, long since dropped by 

 the world of fashion, and to the training of racehorses and 

 the founding of the Derby and Oaks races at Epsom, to 

 which he annually migrated with a large retinue, and 

 which still maintain their hold in undiminished force 

 upon all classes of the British public. The thirteenth 

 Earl's tastes were of a different kind : though still bent 

 upon natural and living objects, they were quiet and un- 

 obtrusive, being devoted to the study of birds and beasts 

 preserved in his museum at Knowsley Hall, and be- 

 queathed at his decease to the borough of Liverpool, and 

 to the collecting and breeding of such beasts as would be 

 likely to be ornamental or useful if successfully natural- 

 ized in this country. In the pursuit of this object, 

 unselfish and patriotic in the extreme, he spared neither 

 time, labour, nor expense. Kestrained, however, during 

 the lifetime of his father, when he came into power he 

 threw himself heart and soul into improving his estate 

 and the laying out of roads extending far and wide ; and 

 whereas his previous efforts in relation to his living col- 

 lections were limited to the modifying and adapting of 



