372 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



Mature, and offer a collection of living animals, such as nevef 

 yet existed in ancient or modern times. The present menageries 

 of Europe are devoted to objects of curiosity. Rome, at the 

 period of her greatest splendour, brought savage monsters from 

 every quarter of the world then known, to be shewn in her am- 

 phitheatres, to destroy or be destroyed, as spectacles of wonder 

 to her citizens. It would well become Britain to offer another, 

 and a very different series of exhibitions, to the population of 

 her metropolis. Animals brought from every part of the globe 

 to be applied to some useful purpose as objects of scientific 

 research, not of vulgar admiration ; and upon such an institution, 

 a philosophy of Zoology founded, pointing out the comparative 

 anatomy, the habits of life, the improvement, and the methods 

 of multiplying those races of animals which are most useful to 

 man, and thus fixing a most beautiful and important branch of 

 knowledge on the permanent basis of direct utility. 

 March Ist^ 1825, 



On tJie 1st of July will be published, 



AN ACCOUNT OF EXPERIMENTS TO DETERMINE THE FIGURE 

 OF THE EARTH, BY MEANS OF THE PENDULUM VIBRATING 

 SECONDS. IN DIFFERENT LATITUDES; AND ON VARIOUS OTHER 

 SUBJECTS OF PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY ; 



By Capt. EDWARD SABINE, of the Royal Regiment 

 OF Artillery, F.R.S. &c. 



Printed at the expense of the Board of Longitude. 



