ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETIES.* 



THE geographical distribution of animal life, the means 

 by which it is effected, the limits within which it is 

 confined, the extent to which the different members of 

 the animal kingdom have been or may be diffused over 

 the globe, these are the interesting questions which 

 nowadays engage much of the attention of individual 

 naturalists, as well as of those societies with whose 

 doings, at home and abroad, we wish the public were 

 better acquainted. As these societies also extend their 

 inquiries to the vegetable world, and are continually 

 making us familiar with the valuable properties of 

 plants, and announcing the steps which are being taken 

 for their introduction into other lands than those to 

 which they are indigenous, they are evidently destined 

 to play an important part in altering the physical con- 

 ditions of future generations. We are confident that the 

 men of the next century will have at their tables the 

 flesh of beasts, birds, and fish, and also fruits and vege- 



* ' Bulletin de la Societ Imperiale Zoologique d' Acclimatation, 

 1864.' 



' Fifth Annual Report of the Society for the Acclimatisation of 

 Animals, Birds, Fishes, Insects, and Vegetables within the United 

 Kingdom, 1865.' 



* Acclimatation et Domestication des Animaux Utiles.' Par M. 

 Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Quatrieme Edition. 



