Wednesday, March 28, 2012

From Buckles #2

03-28-2012 05;03;33AM by bucklesw1
03-28-2012 05;03;33AM, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr.

I agree, the names are highly improbable.
Here is part of the B&B 1899 Inventory, an original document from the McCaddon collection at Princeton University and compiled by Richard Conover in 1954.

Posted by Buckles at 3/28/2012 05:24:00 AM

1 comments:

Unknown said...

Thanks for including my elephant query. I agree things are confusing! US papers tend to give 26 elephants as being here - there never were; Six zebras as going onboard - they never did - it was four; four lions when it was three, etc. They confused things further as they then took home a lot more animals than they came with (logical with German & UK suppliers).

There is also a lovely article by Clarence Dean that says he rewrote "Wonder Books" etc., for British audiences ready for the 1899 tour as the Brits knew more about animal biology, etc., than Americans and would not believe tales about moss-hair caused by US swamps and suchlike. The snag is the post-1898 books look just like their predecessors!!

Fred Neill

29 March, 2012 05:16

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