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FROM the difficulty of obtaining an adequate series of specimens, either living or dead, the deer are one of the groups of large mammals with regard to which our present state of knowledge is decidedly not up to date, comparatively little advance having been made since the appearance of the late Sir Victor Brooke's well-known synopsis in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1878. Fortunately the noble owner of Woburn Abbey, who takes a great interest in animals of all kinds, is endeavouring to get together as complete a collection as possible of these beautiful and interesting ruminants, or rather of such kinds as experience shows to be best suited to withstand the vicissitudes of the English climate. With characteristic liberality the whole of the magnificent collection now assembled is accessible to-zoologists interested in this group of animals, and by its means considerable additions have already been made to our knowledge thereof. From the extent of ground much larger numbers of specimens of the same species can be collected than is possible in the limited space available in the Zoological Society's Gardens in Regent's Park; and the conditions existing in a large country park are, of course, far more favourable to the well-being and display of the animals than is possible in London.
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L., R. The Woburn Abbey Deer. Nature 57, 201–203 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/057201a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/057201a0