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an incomplete testimonial. It may be stated without fear of con- 
tradiction, that the great work accomplished by the London Zo-. 
ological Society during the last forty years is largely due to the 
fact that during that entire period, Dr. Sclater has combined good 
business methods with high scientific aims and far-reaching 
zoological knowledge. As might be expected from the opportu- 
nities of his position, his own contributions to zoology have been 
very numerous and important. His published writings, from 1844 
to 1896, include 1,287 titles, chiefly relating to birds and mam- 
mals exhibited in the Gardens. 
The Zoological Society of London gives its members a great 
deal for their money. Its public functions are three fold. It is 
an institution of research, of publication, and of popular instruc- 
tion, and it is of immense value to the public in all three. 
Concerning the scientific work of the Society, it is impossible 
to do more in this paper than to direct attention to the thousands 
of zoological papers that have been given to the world, richly il- 
lustrated by colored plates from the hands of the best zoological 
artists, in the Society’s regular publications. The ‘‘ Transac- 
tions ’’ comprise fourteen stately quarto volumes; the ‘‘ Proceed- 
ings’’ make sixty-five thick octavos, and without them no zoolog- 
ical library can for one moment be considered complete. If to 
these volumes of research we add the thirty-one volumes of the 
‘Zoological Record,’’ the total of 110 volumes make a showing 
which it is believed cannot be matched by any other zoological 
body or institution in the world. ‘The total cost of the three 
series of publications is, to the public, $1,125. It must not be 
supposed, however, that any scientific society can produce such 
costly books, and distribute them to its members and to the scien- 
tific world gratuitously.. Each volume has its fixed price, that 
‘‘to Fellows’’ being always about 2596 lower than the ‘‘ price to 
the public.’? The Transactions range in price from ten shillings 
to £15 per volume, and the volumes of Proceedings, which con- 
tain colored plates, are now produced at the uniform price of 48 
shillings—‘‘ to the public.”’ 
But the feature which most powerfully appeals to the millions 
of London, and round which the whole corporate system of the 
organization may fairly be said to revolve, is the Society’s Gardens 
in Regent’s Park. 
Strange to say, the Gardens are rather difficult to reach. By 
