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needless repetition of figures of animals known to all the world 

 and already represented in various publications with all the 

 accuracy of which art is capable, as well as by the reiterated 

 representations of others in several stages of their growth. It 

 may be however that circumstances beyond the control of the 

 authors have compelled them against their will to limit them- 

 selves to the comparatively small number of species to which their 

 illustrations must now be confined ; and if this be the case we 

 can only express our regret that so grand an undertaking has been 

 thus rendered imperfect, while we tender to them our best thanks 

 for having executed even this portion of it in so superior a 

 manner. 



In addition to the advantages of a lower price and of a more 

 portable form it is necessary to add that the quarto edition pre- 

 sents also those of a systematic arrangement, and of valuable 

 general articles on the families and genera which are not to be 

 met with in the original work. 



Art. Xni. Proceedings of Learned Societies on Subjects 

 connected with Zoology, 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



In our last number we had the opportunity of congratulating 

 our scientific readers on the approaching establishment of this 

 Society : and we published a short Prospectus explanatory of its 

 views. Since that period the Society has been completely organ- 

 ized ; and its plans and objects are now before the public. 



The first meeting for the formation of the Society took place at 

 the House of the Horticultural Society on the 29th of April, 

 1826, when Sir T. Stamford Raffles was unanimously elected 

 President of the Society, and a Council was appointed to assist 

 him in the direction of its affairs. Committees were subsequently 

 appointed for the planning out and superintendence of the 

 several departments ; and considerable progress was made in the 

 preliminary arrangements of the Institution, when the sudden 

 and lamented death of the President deprived the Society of its 



