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Anonymous, 1819. Mounted animals bought at Bullock's sale brought to Edinburgh. Caledonian Mercury Monday 14 June 1819
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… While individuals are thus patriotically contributing to the museum, the Principal and Professors have purchased the classical cabinett of zoology in the possession of M. Dufresne of Paris, and have added many splendid and rare animals to the collection, from the museum of Mr. Bullock, now selling in London.
A few days ago, there were landed at Leith, from one of the London traders, many packages, with objects of natural history, for the College Museum, purchased at the sale of Bullock’s Museum in London, by Dr Adam of Edinburgh. One of the cases contained the finest specimen in Europe of the male greaffi, or cameleopard. It is nearly eighteen feet high, and in perfect preservation. Professor Jameson has already the female, and, we believe, no other museum in the world possesses both the male and female of this wonderful animal. Another bulky case inclosed a large and perfect Asiatic elephant: there was taken from a third, a magnificent specimen of the great rhinoceros; and a fourth contained two fine lions, one of them measuring fully nine feet in length. The black orang outang, an animal very rarely met with in cabinets of natural history, and a beautiful collection of monkeys and baboons, were taken from another case. The splendour and beauty of the cases of preserved fishes and of birds, were very striking, as well as the appearance of the ichneumons, the jackall, the gigantic manis, the wombat, the pigmy antelope (not larger than a hare), and many other curious and rare quadrupeds.
We are informed the Lords of the Admiralty have instructed the Admiral on this station to dispatch one of his squadron to Havre, to take on board the zoological collection of Dufresne, lately purchased in Paris, for the University of Edinburgh, by a well-known naturalist, Captain Brown of this city.
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