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nient, we should, 1 think, state that they might be all placed in a 
comparatively small space. But let us walk al(»ng those marvellous 
galleries of the British Museum which are devoted to zoology, and 
we shall then see how plentifully the world is stocked with life, and 
how little use we have made of that life ; nay, we may go even to 
the geological gallery and find the bones of creatures which have 
long been extinct in this country, but whose representatives still en- 
enjoy life in distant climates. 
In fact, to reduce this matter to figures, the learned President of 
the Acclimatisation Society in Paris tells us that the world fuiiiishes 
a list of no less than one hundred and forty fhousaud animals, and 
out of tills vast catalogue we limit our attention to the smali number 
of forty-three. 
1 now propose to examine into this catalogue of animal life, and 
to sec wdiicli among the numerous individuals composing it we can 
point out as likely to be of future use to us. I shall not do this at 
random, but taking as my guides the observations of Mr, Mitchell, 
in the Edinburgh article, and also the guide of the gardens of the 
Zoological Society of London, 1 shall endeavour to point out those 
animals and birds which from actual experience have been proved to 
live in this country, and also to multiply their species. There being 
no reason wliy, having once bred, they shall not breed and multiply 
again. 
THE EEANE. 
To begin with what may well be called the most noble, the largest, 
the heaviest, and the most useful of the deer tribe, we may well 
instance the eland, of which I have the oppoi-tunity of showing you 
a magnificent head, through the kindness of Mr, Koberts, furrier, of 
Regent-street. As Mr. Mitchell justly observes :—“The eland is the 
gihief)'par excAlence oi the South African wilderness j his brisket is 
“ the dainty bit they set before the king.” Every travelling sportsman 
in Caffraria agrees upon the fine quality of this meat, and a trial 
made in England in the beginning of last year, under very unfavourable 
circumstances, fully confirms all that they have said, for the eland is 
no longer exclusively African.’’ 
In the catalogue of the animals Jiving at Knowsley when the late 
Earl of Derby died, in 1851, figured five elands, two males and three 
females, one of which had been born there. The Zoological Society 
succeeded to this little herd by bequest. The noble collector had 
been,their President for more than twenty years. He had witnessed 
the decline of the establishment in the Regent’s-park to all but 
