Animals 
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the town of Hornesand, half-way up 
the Baltic coast, shows a beaver in its 
coat of arms. Recently the animal 
has become very rare, generally. For 
instance, in the Vistula, the last speci- 
men disappeared in the middle of the 
nineteenth century, and the last beaver 
from the Danube was to be seen alive 
in the Universal Exhibition at Vienna, 
1873. At present, in the whole of 
Europe, the animal is only known in 
the Elbe district in Germany, in the 
southern Rhone district in France, in 
a small district in the south of Norway, 
and in some places in Russia. In 
Germany and Norway, the beaver has 
come under the protection of law. 
The American beaver {Castor cana- 
densis) too, formerly the symbol of 
Canada, is quickly disappearing. The 
following figures give some idea of 
the number of beavers exported by 
a trading company : — 
