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The number of animals on exhibition embraced 295 mam- 

 mals, of 143 species, and 1115 birds, of 282 species. Since its 

 first establishment there have been exhibited 286 species of 

 mammals, and 622 of birds, besides a considerable number of 

 reptiles and fishes not enumerated in the catalogue. 



There is no reason to believe that zoological gardens in 

 Europe have more visitors, in proportion to the population, 

 than they would have in the United States ; and the statis- 

 tics here presented furnish a decided encouragement to those 

 who are interested in the organization of similar establish- 

 ments in American cities. Such places as Boston, New York, 

 Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, etc., may rea- 

 sonably anticipate a sufficient number of visitors to warrant 

 the erection of a first-class zoological garden, with entire as- 

 surance that the expenses will be fully met, even if great 

 profits are not obtainable. In such a place, however, as New 

 York, there can be no question as to a pecuniary profit. In 

 the Zoological Garden of London the annual income in the 

 way of fees from visitors, etc., amounts to considerably over 

 $100,000, a sum sufficient to meet all the cost of sustaining 

 and exhibiting this unrivaled collection of living objects. 

 Report. 



ZOOLOGICAL STATIONS ON THE COAST OF FRANCE. 



The zoological station of Roscoff, on the coast of France, 

 as established by Professor Lacaze-Duthiers, has become 

 classical in consequence of the numerous researches prosecut- 

 ed there, and published to the world, in large part, in the 

 zoological journal of that author. At a late meeting of the 

 French Scientific Association, M. Giard, in referring to the 

 existence of the three marine zoological stations of Concar- 

 neau, Marseilles, and Roscoff, gives an account of one lately 

 established by him at Wimereux, making four now under the 

 auspices of French specialists. 



Concarneau is well known as the scene of the researches 

 of Professor Coste, of Gerbe, and of Pouchet, while the work 

 at Marseilles has been principally by Lespes and Marion. 

 These places, with Roscoff, according to Giard, are too dis- 

 tant from the north of France to be of any service to natural- 

 ists in that neighborhood, or to those who may wish to study 

 the more northern species ; and he entered upon a critical 



