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country, especially islands. There are, however, some species of 
Deer and Antelopes that might doubtless be naturalised in England, 
if only for their beauty and elegance of form, apart from any 
pecuniary advantage. 
Some thirty-live years ago, an Acclimatisation Society was formed. 
It had, I think, but a short existence. A report was published 
in 1861. In the early days of the Zoological Society they had 
a farm at Kingston, this appears to have been given up after some 
few years. The most notable instance by a private individual, in 
the introduction of foreign animals, was the famous Knowsley 
Menagerie, formed by a late Earl of Derby which was dispersed 
by sale about the year 1851. 
Confining these remarks more particularly to animals (birds, 
especially game and waterfowl offering a far wider field for obser- 
vation, so much more having been attempted with them), amongst 
the various parks and localities where collections can now be found, 
may be enumerated : 
Powcrscourt, Co. Wicklow, the seat of Earl Powerscourt, where 
a herd of the pretty Japanese Deer has been established about 
thirty-five years or so, and they appear to thrive well. Leonards Lea, 
Horsham ; Sir Edmund Loder. Osinaston Manor, Ashbourne, 
Sir Peter Walker ; where there is a herd of Wapiti Deer. 
Haggerston, Northumberland, Mr. Leland, some American Bison; 
Tritig, the Hon. Walter Rothschild, the museum here and its 
splendid contents are now well-known, there is a collection of birds 
and some animals. The Hon. Walter Rothschild’s team of BureheU’s 
Zebras attracted a good deal of attention some little time ago ; 
there are, I believe, some interesting experiments in progress at the 
present time, as to breeding hybrids with this Zebra and the Horse.* 
Lastly, and where probably the finest private collection of living 
animals and birds is at present to be seen is Woburn, Beds, the seat 
of the Duke of Bedford. Passing the deer, of which there are 
examples of the Sambar, Axis, and some others, also a flock of 
Bharal Sheep, and five Burchell’s Zebras, the most interesting 
animals are three species of African Antelopes, a pair of White- 
tailed Gnus, now it is believed not found as a wild animal, but 
protected on some private farms in the Cape Colony and the 
Transvaal; four examples of one of the most beautiful of the 
* ‘ Zoologist,’ February, 1898. 
