A Conversation for Dublin's Dead Zoo - The Natural History Museum
A postman's nightmare...
Is mise Duncan Started conversation May 22, 2007
Also (if my memory serves me well) according to the Gould article the dead zoo was (before computers) the repository for the definitive example of each and every species so if you found a new one you had to send it to Dublin.
I bet the pigmy hippo was an unhappy discovery for the local sorting office. 
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