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been unfortunately lost on its journey to the coast, Sclater was unable to 
give any account of this animal in his paper on the Mammals collected and 
observed during the East-African Expedition, in the ‘Proceedings’ of the 
Zoological Society for 1864. The subject therefore was delayed until 1872, 
when Sir Victor Brooke, who was at that time busy upon the Antelopes, 
obtained from Col. Grant and Capt. Speke the careful sketches of the heads 
and skins of this animal which the travellers had made in their note-books. 
The examination of these sketches confirmed Brooke in the opinion that 
the Antelope represented by them was undoubtedly new to science; and 
consequently on April 16th of that year Sir Victor read a communication 
to the Zoological Society in which he proposed to name the new Gazelle 
after Grant, Speke’s name in this group of animals having been already 
commemorated by the Gazella spekei of Blyth and the Tragelaphus speket 
of Sclater. Sir Victor gave as good a description of the new Antelope as he 
could from the notes before him, especially alluding to the extraordinary 
development of its horns, which attained dimensions nearly double those of any 
other Gazelle known to him. Brooke’s paper, which is accompanied by a 
beautiful coloured figure of the new Antelope, prepared by Wolf from Speke’s 
sketches, states that Col. Grant, who had supplied him with copious extracts 
from his note-books, informed him that this species was only met with 
during their expedition in Western Kinyenye, in Ugogo. ‘The country 
inhabited by it he described as low-lying sandy plains, dotted over in some 
places with euphorbias, dwarf acacias, and stunted baobabs. ‘The chief 
peculiarity of this district, owing doubtless to its comparatively low level, 
was the great accumulation of salt, which had of course a marked effect 
on the vegetation. Water at all times of the year was very scarce there, and 
often entirely absent, the little found being brackish and undrinkable. 
In 1875 the Zoological Society received as a present from Sir John Kirk, 
then British Consul-General at Zanzibar, a living female Grant's Gazelle, 
which, however, was unfortunately in very poor condition and died shortly 
after its arrivalin London. The acquisition of this animal was announced 
by Sclater in a report on the additions to the Society’s Menagerie read on 
November 2nd of that year, and was accompanied by a figure of it drawn 
from the stuffed specimen by Mr. Smit. So far as we know, this is the only 
individual of Grant’s Gazelle that has ever reached Europe alive. 
It will be observed that the original place of discovery of Grant’s Gazelle 
