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persons desire to make collections of specimens to carry away 

 with them, cans and alcohol will be furnished at cost to those 

 who are not already provided. 



THE BEIGHTOX AQUAEIUM. 



The Brighton Aquarium, under the management, since Mr. 

 Lord's death, of Mr. W. Saville Kent, late of the British Mu- 

 seum, continues to be highly successful. Among the most 

 recent additions are several octopus and dogfish, a pair of 

 porpoises, and other strange inhabitants of the deep ; and the 

 number of visitors is great beyond expectation. A similar 

 undertaking has been proposed on the east coast, at Lowes- 

 toft, in Suifolk. 



THE ZOOLOGICAL GAKDENS OF LONDON". 



A few months ago a " revised list of the vertebrated ani- 

 mals now or lately living in the gardens of the Zoological 

 Society of London" Avas published by Dr. Sclater, the eminent 

 secretary of the society, and our readers may be interested 

 to learn of the magnitude of the collections catalogued. The 

 list fills a volume of over 400 pages, embracing nearly 498 

 species of mammals and 1044 of birds, many of the rare species 

 being represented by a number of individuals. In addition 

 there were also numerous cold-blood vertebrated animals, the 

 true reptiles amounting to 181 species, the batrachians to 35, 

 and the fishes to 68 species. Among the more interesting 

 animals were 93 difi*erent kinds of monkeys, including the 

 chimpanzee, orang, and four species of gibbon, the aard-wolf 

 {Proteles) of South Africa, the panda {^lurus fulgens) of 

 Nepaul, two species of aard-vark, or ant-bear ( Orycteropus)^ 

 and 39 species of marsupials. Among the birds are 61 species 

 of parrots, 79 species of pigeons, 124 gallinaceous birds, and 

 79 species of ducks, geese, and swans ; and more esiDCcially 

 attention may be called to the fact that in the gardens there 

 were no less than 11 species of struthious birds, of which 

 three were rheas, or South American ostriches, and four casso- 

 waries. This collection is without a peer any where, and of 

 course in this country there is no collection that is worthy 

 to be mentioned in comparison. But as the gardens realize 

 a very large income to the society ($100,000 in 1871), it is to 

 be hoped that an incentive may be oflfered to establish such 



