BOVINE ANIMALS 
by the application of this instrument that we succeeded 
in driving the animal to its destination safe and sound. 
In due course I was anxious to dispose of it to the 
Zoological Society, who declined to purchase the animal. 
I then offered it to the former Lord Derby, who also 
refused it. 
I then offered it to the Society if they would simply 
pay the freight, which amounted to £40. This also was 
refused. The animal lived in the Zoological Gardens 
from 1844 to 1846 ; after its death I proposed to the 
authorities of the British Museum that they should 
purchase the skin and skeleton, but this proposal was 
declined. 
I prepared the skin and skeleton, and corresponded 
with Mr. Blyth, the then curator of the Calcutta Museum, 
who begged me to forward to Calcutta the skin and 
skeleton for the Museum, as they had no specimen. 
This I accordingly did, and I believe that both are to 
be seen in the Calcutta Museum at the present day. 
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