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After describing his specimens in America, Mr. Du Chaillu brought them 
to this country, and disposed of them to the British Museum. 
The late Dr. J. E. Gray, who was not very friendly with the great explorer, 
and had carried on a paper warfare with him in the ‘Atheneum’ journal, 
lost no time in bringing the specimens before the Zoological Society, where 
Fig. 103. 
The Bongo Antelope. 
(From Du Chaillu’s ‘ Travels in Equatorial Africa,’ p. 306.) 
he subjected them to a somewhat severe criticism. The supposed new 
species of Tragelaphus, he pointed out, was ‘evidently only a specimen of 
Antilope eurycerus of Ogilby.” This was, no doubt, correct, but at the same 
time Mr. Du Chaillu’s skin, imperfect as it was, was the first specimen of 
the animal, except the original two pairs of horns, acquired by the National 
