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Besides the Zoological Society’s animals, the only herd of Elands that we 
are aware of now existing in this country is that belonging to the Duke of 
Bedford, the President of the Zoological Society of London, which is kept in 
the beautiful Park at Woburn, along with a splendid series of Deer and other 
Ungulates. ‘Through the kindness of His Grace we have been furnished with 
the following particulars concerning this herd, which now consists of fourteen 
individuals. Three of these are adult females, two of which were purchased 
from dealers, and the third from the Zoological Society of London, in whose 
Gardens it was bred. ‘The adult male was purchased of Herr Reiche, of 
Alfeld. Five young males and two females have been bred at Woburn up to 
the end of 1899. Three calves, one male and two females, have been born at 
Woburn since the commencement of the present year. 
Allusion has already been made to the Elands possessed by the late Roland, 
Viscount Hill, who, about the year 1861, possessed a fine herd of these 
animals. When visited by Sclater about that date, Lord Hill’s stock consisted 
of three males and seven females, which were kept at his Lordship’s residence 
Hawkstone, in Shropshire. They were the produce of individuals principally 
purchased by him from the Zoological Society, and were kept in grazing 
paddocks in Hawkstone Park. Unfortunately, a few years later Lord Hill 
lost his interest in these animals and got rid of them. 
About the same period John, 2nd Marquis of Breadalbane, likewise 
purchased a herd of Elands, which, however, we believe, was not maintained 
long after the Marquis’s death in 1862. 
In almost all the Zoological Gardens of the Continent also the Eland is a 
well-known object of interest, and in many of them, until the last few years, 
has thriven well and produced its kind; but, as already mentioned, the supply 
of Klands from abroad has recently much decreased, and at the present time 
there is a great difficulty in keeping our herds of Elands in Europe up to the 
mark by the necessary introduction of fresh blood. 
One of the chief ornaments of the Mammal-Gallery in the British Museum 
is the mounted pair of Livingstone’s Elands obtained by Mr. F. C. Selous in 
Mashonaland in 1883. The male (as Mr. Selous informs us) was shot near 
Sadza’s Kraal, west of Marandalla’s, a station on the main road from Salisbury 
to Umtali, in July of that year, and the female near Salisbury in the following 
October. The male stands 673 inches high at the withers, and carries a pair 
of horns 224 inches in length in a straight line; the female is 573 inches in 
