Edward Walford, Once a Week, Series 1, Volume V… (1861)
“ The late Mr. Nicholas Aylward Vigors, sometime M.P. for Carlow, was an F.R.S. and an eminent naturalist, and for many years honorary secretary of the Zoological Society. Some five-and-twenty years ago he was ejected from the representation of that constituency by Colonel Bruen. It is related in Dr. Doyle’s memoirs that a common friend remarked, à propos of the circumstance, that Vigors need not have gone very far from his favourite Zoological Gardens in the Regent’s Park to see Bruin at the top of the pole. ”
