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pursued and liiiiited down, yet seem Lardly to dimiuisli in numbers, 
English sportsmen make special expeditions in search of these, and 
within the last few months the Hon. Grautley Berkeley has returned 
from an expedition which he undertook solely to kill these animals. 
He has brought home with him the magnificent trophy which, through 
the kindness of the Editor of the Field, T am now enabled to show 
you. What a magnificent animal for our English parks; it is not 
only ornamental, but also exliibits qualities which would in some 
persons’ eyes give it greater charms. It is good to eat, and carries a 
hump on its shoulders, a taste of which would be quite sufficient to 
impress on the minds of our yoiinncmts the necessity of becoming a 
convert to the acclimatisation of animals, 
I need not refer to printed records as to whether the bison will 
live in this country or not. It is a fact accomjilished. The Great 
Northern Bail way will, with the permission of that noble-minded en- 
courager of acclimatisation, the Earl of Breadalbane, carry us not 
many miles from a nuigtiificeiit park where we may sec the shaggy 
monster of the prairies cropping Scottish grass, and watched by 
Scottish keepers, and thriving well (like most foreigners) upon the 
fat of our favoured land. Our worthy friend, Punchy has unknowingly 
given us a helping hand in our desire to acclimatise this beast, for he 
has given us a capital caricature, which not only makes us laugh, but 
confirms, throughout the length and breadth of the land, the fact, 
should it ever be doubted hereafter, that bisons lived in Scotland, 
A.D. 1800. 
I must not foi’get to mention in this place those noble beasts the 
Aurocks, of Russia. A i)air of these, as we well know, were, through 
the interest of Sir Roderick Murchison, sent by the Em[)eror of 
Russia, to the Zoological Gardens, where they might be alive now if 
a murrain, which was at that time prevalent among cattle, had not 
unfortunately carried them offi We trust that we may yet see 
another pair in this country. 
There is yet another beast that should be mentioned, the Yak, of 
Asia, of which we hear from the French Society, that across between 
it and the cow produces a hybrid, a beautiful animal, which unites 
the good qualities of both parents.” 
From the deer tribe 1 now pass on to the other mammalia. And 
first let us, according to the rule I have laid down, see whether we 
cannot restore any of the British beasts whose bones wc find fossil. 
In many parts of England, in Norfolk, Suifolk, Berkshire, Cambridge¬ 
shire, and in Scotland, we find fossil bones of the beaver j nay, 
more, Professor Owen writes, tradition refers the names and arms of 
the town of Beverley in Yorkshire to the fact of beavers having 
