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the human inhabitants of the Regent's Park, whose habits 

 and strength of constitution do not enable them to control 

 and overcome this pregnant but happily remediable source 

 of ill-health*." 



The Council have therefore addressed a Memorial to Her 

 Majesty's Commissioners of Sewers, on the necessity, as a 

 sanatory measure, of draining the M'hole area of the Park, 

 and they have had the satisfaction of finding that the ar- 

 guments they advanced in that paper have not only been 

 favourably received by the Board, but materially strength- 

 ened by the inquiry which has been instituted in con- 

 sequence. It is probable therefore that this very seiious 

 difficulty and active cause of disappointment in the ope- 

 rations of the Society will be at no distant period either 

 entii'ely removed or very extensively ameliorated. 



That great attention has been paid to the health of the 

 Animals during the past year, and with considerable suc- 

 cess, will be evident from the following 



List op Species which have bred in the 

 Menagerie. 



MAMMALIA. 



Monkey. Macacus Rhesus. 



Jackal. Canis mesomelas. 



Wolf. Canis hqms. 



Zebu. Bos taurus, var. 



Brahmin Cow. Bos taurus, var. 



Hog Deer. Cervus 2Jorci'uus. 



Wapiti. Cervus canadctisis. 



Corsican Goat. Capra hircus. 



Giraffe. Camelopardalis Giraffa. 



Bennett's Kangaroo. Macropus Bennettii, 



Rat Kangaroo. Hypsiprymnus. 



Chinchilla. Chinchilla lanigera, Benn. 



Indian Wild Boar. Sus Indicus, Gray. 



* Prof. Owen in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1848, p. 126. 



