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are far in advance of any thing we in this country can show. 

 It seems strange that, though we have for years past attracted 

 the best available foreign zoological artists, our efforts to ob- 

 tain the best staffers of birds and other animals appear to have 

 been of the feeblest description. The result is that in our great 

 museums, where alone this, the aesthetic branch of the sub- 

 ject, can and ought to be cultivated on an extensive scale, it 

 is treated with indifference, and thus our galleries rendered 

 far less attractive than they otherwise might be. 



