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Society, died in 1851, he directed that his herd of five 
elands at Knowsley should be given to the Society for 
use in their menagerie. They multiplied fast, and six 
fawns were produced between 1851 and 1 855, and it was 
found that at two years old they stood thirteen hands 
at the shoulder. The protection necessary was not 
more than that usual in fattening fine cattle, and the 
Society resolved to sell their fawns for the experiment 
of acclimatization in English parks. Lord Hill 
bought a young male and two females for his large 
park at Hawkstone ; but according to Whitaker’s 
Deer-Parks of England , none of these survive. The 
Marquis of Breadalbane also bought three. In 1861, 
twenty-one calves had been born in the Zoological 
Gardens since Lord Derby’s gift ten years before, and 
there is still the nucleus of a herd of their descendants 
at the Zoo, though their size and stamina is diminished 
by inter-breeding. It does not appear that eland 
breeding is now followed with much enthusiasm by the 
owners of large parks and chases, partly, no doubt, 
because the “shorthorn mania” was for a time such 
an absorbing pursuit among country gentlemen as to 
leave no thoughts for any other experiments. 
It seems a waste of the resources of nature to allow 
these fine animals to be exterminated, as they soon 
will be, in our new African empire. The argument, 
that because South African negroes have not tamed 
them, we should not attempt to do it, is of little force. 
The African keeps cows to give milk ; meat was 
supplied in inexhaustible quantities by the wild 
