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THE ZOOLOOIOAL SOCIETY. 



aviaries, etc. Few copies can be traced now ; but, fortunately, it 

 was reproduced in the Literary Gazette with some descriptive 

 text, and the editorial remark that "it may be a subject of 

 interest to look back to the infant state of this establishment at 

 a future day, when it shall have attained that extent and import- 

 ance, suited to the scientific views of the nation that supports it, 

 which is now sanguinely, and with good grounds, anticipated." 



UBLIC DRIVE ROUN&°''^'THEREGENT'S PARK 



DECIMUS BURTON'S PLAN OF THE GROUND, 



This is a pleasant contrast to the paragraph quoted from the 

 same source on pp. 22, 23. 



Then the larger animals had been removed from Bruton 

 Street to the Park. Some monkeys, however, remained, and 

 of one kept in the office the clerk reported that it had par- 

 tially destroyed a book of vouchers, which had occasioned a 

 deficiency. That monkey was unjustly blamed, but its character 

 was eventually cleared.^ 



* While these pages were passing through the press this fiction was paralleled 

 hy the destruction of some scrip hy a monkey in the Bank of France. About the 

 same time it was stated in evidence before the Koyal Commission to enquire into 

 the contracts, sales, and refunds to contractors in South Africa, that the auditors 

 vere unable to obtain some important documents on account of their destruction 

 by rats. 



