LONDON
Morning Advertiser - Tuesday 06 May 1834
ZOOLOGY. —The Ship Lord Hungerford, Captain Farquharson, from Bengal, is daily expected, having on board a very fine RHINOCEROS, with several other rare specimens of Wild Beasts, the whole for SALE. For particulars apply to T. Haviside and Co., No. 147, Leadenhall-street.
London Courier and Evening Gazette - Wednesday 28 May 1834
A very fine full grown male rhinoceros, brought from India by Captain Farquharson, in the Lord Hungerford, has been deposited at the Zoological Gardens in the the Regent's Park.
Morning Post - Wednesday 28 May 1834
London Evening Standard - Wednesday 28 May 1834
The male rhinoceros lately purchased by the Zoological Society, Regent's Park, measures upwards of five feet in height, eleven feet in length, nine feet in girth, and weighs twenty-six hundred weight.
Morning Post - Saturday 07 June 1834
Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park. A very magnificent rhinoceros has lately been added to this extensive collection, at the expense, we understand, of 1 000 guineas.
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