Dr. Robert Pringle, Brigade-Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel, sends an interesting evidence of
the elephant's long memory to the Times of Thursday. He said that, being with his children in the Zoological Gardens, he wished to make one of the elephants there salute before giving him a bun, and said to him, "Salaam Kuro,"—that is, make a salaam. The crea- ture looked hard at him for some time, and at last remember- ing his Indian lessons of seventeen years previously, he lifted his trunk and made a most correct salaam, to the great sur- prise of his keeper, who had never seen him do anything of the kind before. If the elephants, however, ought to live, as it is said they ought to do, and sometimes do, to twice our age, their memories should be at least as retentive as ours; and seventeen years is a very short time for human memories to go back.
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