ANECDOTES 
in advance and two behind the Sultan, Mr. Moore and my- 
self being in the centre with the Sultan. As we passed the 
aviaries, pheasantries and other cages, I explained their 
contents, which the Sultan from time to time stopped to 
admire and to listen to what was said respecting them. 
His Majesty was evidently much struck by the appearance 
and performance of the Sea-bear; and the keeper, Lecomte, 
as usual, did his best to render this part of the exhibition 
as complete as possible ; the stay at this spot was of 
considerable duration, and the Sultan expressed himself 
as highly delighted. The zebras next seemed to please 
him much ; passing from this house he came upon the 
large carnivora and the keeper, Cocksedge, who took con- 
siderable pains to display the lions and tigers. 
THE GREAT LOBSTER. 
I remember the following good story of my old and 
much-esteemed friend, Mr. Adolph Franks, senior, a 
zoological merchant of Amsterdam. Franks and I used 
to do a large amount of zoological business with all the 
museums throughout Europe. He used to come to Eng- 
land to purchase large collections of dead animals, skeletons, 
birds, reptiles, fishes, etc. After transacting a large 
lot of business with Jamrach and myself one day, he pro- 
posed that we should go to the theatre in the evening ; 
well, having enjoyed the evening at the theatre and before 
parting he made us join him in a big supper in Oxford 
Street. Franks was always mad (when he came to London) 
on lobsters for supper, so he went into the restaurant and 
looked at the lobsters, which were rather small. He then 
seized the waiter and dragged him outside, and in bad 
English mixed with Dutch told the frightened man, in an 
excited state of mind, that he wanted a lobster as big as 
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