their success. I publicly noticed in every lec- 

 ture I delivered, these conditions of my agree- 

 ment : several of the managers were present. I 

 never was checked nor contradicted in my state- 

 ment, and I further announced by advertisement 

 in the newspapers, the publication of a work 

 that was to serve as an index or key to my 

 whole undertaking. These events are too re- 

 cent to be forgotten. 



The many testimonies of approbation with 

 which this subject was originally received by a 

 numerous audience, at the Royal Institution, 

 its successful introduction, since that period, at 

 the other scientific institutions of this metro- 

 polis, have fully evinced that this important 

 study may be illustrated not only with the 

 strictest decorum,- but that, when properly 

 treated, may afford no less elegant entertain- 

 ment, than any other branch of science. We 

 accordingly see the philosophy of the animal eco- 

 nomy, assuming that high rank among the 

 sciences to which it is justly entitled, and be- 

 coming daily, like botany, a more and more 

 fashionable general pursuit. Before this trial, 

 however, several objections were made to my 

 proposals by the gentlemen entrusted with the 

 managementof the Royal Institution. The plans 

 could not be adopted, they imagined, without 

 trespassing upon the province of some other pro- 

 fessors. They were " SCRUPULOUSLY" delicate 



