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SELOUS BIG GAME TROPHIES LONDON England June 5 Mrs Selous has of ¬ fered to present to the Natural History Museum the magnificent collection of big garni trophies formed by her husband the late Captain F C Selous I S O The trustees of the British Museum have accepted the gift and in duo course tlio collection will bo transferred to South Kensington It will l o kept together as the Scions Collection for a period of years nnd It is understood that tho trus ¬ tees propose to prepare a special catalog of tho specimens specimensThe The collect ion consists of nlxmt 500 trophies of tin chase most of them unusually fine cxamphs of their siHcios Tin great part of the oiloction is African but there are also several heads of moose wapiti and oarilxm from Canada atid New ¬ foundland chamois from tin Southern Carpathians and wild goat from Asia Minor MinorMrs Mrs Scions Kilt also includes Captain Selous Euro eau collection of birds eggs one of tho finest private collections of the kind in the kingdom Every clutch is perfect carefully labeled with exact locality and date in the handwriting of Captain Seluus
