Horn Measurements and Weights of the Great Game of the World, being a Record for the use of Sportsmen and Naturalists

Abstract

IN these days, when every one is striving to “beat the record,” it is only right that sportsmen should have clearly put before them the results already arrived at as regards the size of the trophies and the weight of game-animals already obtained by their brother Nimrods. No one is in so good a position to do this as Mr. Rowland Ward, to whose well-known “jungle” in Piccadilly all the leading shooters of the present day send their “heads” to be mounted and their “skins” to be stuffed. It is, however, much to be regretted that Mr. Ward did not take into his councils some brother “F.Z.S.” more versed in scientific knowledge than himself when he prepared this volume, or at any rate did not have the proof-sheets revised by some zoologist with a good knowledge of the Mammalia. The consequence of this want of foresight is that the nomenclature and localities upon which the importance of the records entirely depends are in a very confused state, and in many cases quite erroneous.

Horn Measurements and Weights of the Great Game of the World, being a Record for the use of Sportsmen and Naturalists.

By Rowland Ward (London: Published by the Author, 1892.)