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Knowsley at my disposal ; but I never slept there but once, as 
it was more convenient to spend my evenings with my daughter, 
who lived at Liverpool. His lordship directed that the head 
keeper and his curator should attend to my directions ; but 1 
studiously abstained from giving any, except by making sug- 
gestions to Lord Derby. Lord Derby, a few years before his 
death, consulted me about the disposal of his ornithological 
specimens and other stuffed animals, and asked me if they were 
desirable for the British Museum, of which he was a trustee. I 
replied that, through his kindness and liberality, we had most 
of the specimens that were in his museum ; perhaps there 
might be from seventy to a hundred that were desirable for the 
Museum, which he might leave us the power to select if he was 
so disposed ; but I recommended that, as a nobleman living in 
Lancashire, he should leave his museum to Liverpool, Man- 
chester, or some of the large towns of the county. He consulted 
his son ; and the collection was eventually left to Liverpool, and 
forms the basis of their very interesting Free Museum. When 
the collection was received and opened to the public, there was, 
as usual in England, a public entertainment, to which, by some 
oversight, I was not invited, though several London men were 
there ; and one speaker, in returning thanks, dilated on the great 
richness of the collection of birds as compared with that in the 
British Museum, and the great exertions made by the officers of 
that institution to induce his lordship to leave it his collections. 
The collection of living animals was sold at Lord Derby’s 
death, and his successor wrote to me requesting me to find 
situations for the several keepers, &c. The person who had 
chief charge of the menagerie became superintendent of the 
Zoological Society’s Gardens. 
Knowsley Menagerie was certainly the best and most econo- 
mically conducted collection of living animals that I ever knew. 
Lord Derby sent out several travellers to the southern parts of 
Africa, and to other parts of the world, many of whom I en- 
gaged for him ; but the experience I gained would not induce 
me to employ collectors abroad, as they never make such col- 
lections as they would do if working on their own account and 
with their own capital. 
312. Description of Cetaceous Animals, with figures of the new 
species and their skulls. Zool. Ereb. and Terror, 1846, 4to. 
313. Descriptions of some new Australian Beptiles. Stokes’s Discov. 
in Australia, 1846, i. p. 498, fig. 
314. List of the Mammalia and Birds (by G. R. Gray) of Nepaul 
presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., to the British Museum. 
1846, 12mo. 
315. An outline of an arrangement of Stony Corals. Ann. Nat. 
Hist, xix, 1847, pp. 120-128. 
316. On the characters separating the four great divisions of the 
Animal Kingdom. Ann. Nat. Hist. xix. 1847, p. 138. 
