PEEFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION. 



THE object of this List is to enable those interested in the 

 living collection of the Zoological Society of London to 

 ascertain what species of Vertebrated Animals have been 

 represented in the Menagerie during the past twenty years. 

 It is also of great use to enable the specimens exhibited 

 from time to time to be labelled on a uniform system. 



The first edition of the List was issued in 1862, and 

 contained the names of all the animals that had been 

 living in the Society's Gardens at any time during the 

 previous year, with their habitats, and the dates and modes 

 of their acquisition. 



In the second edition, issued in 1863, the animals living in 

 the Society's Gardens from the 1st of January to the end of 

 May of that year were given in a similar form. 



In the third edition, which was completed for press on the 

 1st of January, 1865, the names of all specimens received by 

 the Society during 1864 were added to the List. 



In the fourth and subsequent editions the names of all the 

 vertebrated animals added to the Society's collection during 

 the following years were inserted in their proper places. 



In the present (eighth) edition of this Catalogue I have 

 pursued exactly the same system, and have added the names 



