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and armadilloes, and a house for reptiles, would be required. 

 Monkey-poles would be needed on the lawns, and also 

 movable cages and perches for showy birds during the sum- 

 mer season. The houses for the large Asiatic quadrupeds, 

 for monkeys, and for parrots, must be constructed of stone or 

 of brick, and must be artificially heated ; if possible, by the 

 circulation of hot water. A roomy and commodious winter 

 house, heated in the same way, would be proper for shelter- 

 ing, during the winter season, some of the animals which 

 would occupy open sheds during the summer and autumn 

 months. Lastly, a handsome lodge for the superintendent, 

 and an apartment for furnishing refreshments, may be men- 

 tioned as requisite appendages." 



" Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart., the Grange House ; 

 Professor Jameson, College; Dr. Traill, Albyn Place; James 

 Wilson, Esq., Woodville ; Dr. Spittal, Wemyss Place ; Con- 

 vener Dick, 8. Clyde Street ; and Dr. Neill, Canonmills Cot- 

 tage;" are the persons named as those to whom com- 

 munications on the matter may be made. 



Natural History Society for Nottingham and Nottingham- 

 shire. — A public meeting was held at Nottingham on April 5., 

 for the purpose of instituting a society of the title given. The 

 mayor, T. Wakefield, Esq., presided. The results were, 

 appointing the Duke of Newcastle patron ; and choosing the 

 officers, except the president and vice-presidents, and six of 

 the council, the choosing of whom was deferred until the an- 

 nual meeting appointed for June ; and some speeches, of one 

 of which the following is a portion : — Dr. J. C. Williams 

 said, that " he hoped Nottingham would not be long almost 

 the only important place without a museum of Natural His- 

 tory. London had the British Museum, but too far off to be 

 of use to us in Nottingham. There was a noble institution at 

 Manchester, another at Leeds, at Birmingham, at Liverpool, 

 at Newcastle, at Hull, at other places, and the last, not least, 

 at Worcester, where the talented and enlightened Dr. Has- 

 tings had already shown the importance of such institutions, 

 and published a valuable and interesting work. Men de- 

 voted to scientific pursuits as yet have no rallying point at 

 Nottingham, no society for mutual cooperation ; they have 

 no place in which they can deposit their collections, nor see 

 the collections of others. Those who study zoology have no 

 opportunity of examining specimens ; the resources of an indi- 

 vidual will not find them ; and the public has not yet done so. 

 For instance, how gratifying it would be to have a collection 

 of British birds ! Next on botany : to medical men how im- 

 portant and necessary ! Yet is there no collection of plants 



