THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



NATURAL HISTORY, 



JUNE, 1832. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. A Visit to the Surrey Zoological Gardens. 

 By Observator. 



Previously to the establishment of the Zoological Gardens 

 in the Regent's Park, it had been matter of deep regret 

 to the cultivators of natural history, that we possessed no 

 great scientific establishment for facilitating and encouraging 

 the study of zoology, and no menageries where the natural 

 forms, and in some degree the natural instincts and habits, of 

 the animals of the globe might conveniently be observed and 

 examined. In no other part of Europe were these deficiencies 

 complained of; notwithstanding, we, as a nation, were richer 

 than any other country in the extent of our foreign posses- 

 sions, and had at our command peculiar facilities for collecting 

 and introducing exotic animals. Under these, circumstances, 

 no other resource was left to the student of zoology and the 

 philosopher of nature, but that of visiting the magnificent 

 institutions of other countries, where the requisite aids to 

 their studies might be found. Such, however, have been 

 the progress of, and the increasing taste for, the delightful 

 study of zoology among us, that, in the short space of five 

 years, not only have the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's 

 Park been founded and established, but we have even now 

 a second establishment of the same kind, the Surrey Zoo- 

 logical Gardens : these being similar to the Regent's Park 

 ones in all essential requisites, and equally conducive to 

 the same useful purposes and rational enjoyment. Where 

 the genuine love of science prevails, and where there is an 

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