Animal products; . ndia for aseries, of years : 1849 70,828 1850 56,718 1851 43,086 1852 90,140 1853 55,886 1854 80,895 1855 66,921 1856 82,384 1857 128,096 £ 11858 19,80511867 1859 98,157 i860 97,126 1861 33,039 1862 120,367 1863 60,260 1864 80,398 1865 77,217 1866 92,402 £85,008 64,575122,520 1868 1869 1870 108,289 1871 83,003 1872 61,91s 1873 104,869 1874 127,404 1875 89,640 In the last named year the exports were from Bengal ^1,843,from British Burmah ^2,231, and the remainder from Madrasand Sind. As illustrations there are in the Animal Products Collection afine small elephants skull with
Animal products; . ndia for aseries, of years : 1849 70,828 1850 56,718 1851 43,086 1852 90,140 1853 55,886 1854 80,895 1855 66,921 1856 82,384 1857 128,096 £ 11858 19,80511867 1859 98,157 i860 97,126 1861 33,039 1862 120,367 1863 60,260 1864 80,398 1865 77,217 1866 92,402 £85,008 64,575122,520 1868 1869 1870 108,289 1871 83,003 1872 61,91s 1873 104,869 1874 127,404 1875 89,640 In the last named year the exports were from Bengal ^1,843,from British Burmah ^2,231, and the remainder from Madrasand Sind. As illustrations there are in the Animal Products Collection afine small elephants skull with tusks; nine large ivory tusks, oneweighing 94 lbs., and many small ones, samples of mammoth THE IVORY TRADE. 341. ivory, and diseased ivory, ivory anklets and numerous manufac-turing applications of ivory, with elephants bones from Siam. The Ivory Trade.—The supply of ivory seems to increaserather than to diminish. In 1827 we only received 3,000 the imports in round numbers, in 1840 they were nearly. SIAMESE WAR ELEPHANT. 5,500 cwt.; in 1850, 9,400 cwt.; in i860 nearly 10,000 cwt.; in1870, 12,600 and in 1875, * 6,258 cwt. The total quantity ofivory imported into the United Kingdom in the quarter of acentury ending with 1875 was 267,924 cwt. There is a smallquantity of other ivory than elephants tusks mixed up with this,but it is comparatively unimportant, and it would probably notamount to 8,000 cwt. in the whole period. Now averaging the 342 OUR IMPORTS OF IVORY. tusks received at only 26 lbs. each, nearly 21,000 elephantsmust have been slaughtered annually, exclusive of what wasshipped elsewhere, or used locally, and supposing some tusks werecast, some animals died a natural death, and some portion wasfossil ivory, at least 20,000 elephants annually will be within themark. Quantities and value of the ivory imported into the UnitedKingdom: 184018411842 18431844 1845 Cwt. ,8n6,4295,462 5,2296,402 1846 5,394 18471848 184918501851 6,4775,H67,4579,3966,356 18
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