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water and shelter, and such cliff-dwellers as the mountain-sheep 

 will be located on rugged masses of natural rock. It is proposed 

 that the buffalo herd shall contain about twenty-five carefully 

 selected animals, living in a twenty-acre range, and be in every 

 way worthy to represent this important species." 



Tn conclusion, we are sure that all persons interested in Natural 

 History will wish full success to the Zoological Society of New 

 York, and will hope that the sum necessarily required to start such 

 a large undertaking may be speedily raised. From the well-known 

 munificence of the wealthy Americans in all matters of this sort it 

 cannot be doubted that these expectations will be abundantly 

 realised. P. L. Sclater. 



