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TEE ZOOLOGICAL 800IETY. 



The ticket, here reproduced, is of about this date ; and the 

 small- type extract below the signature is evidence of a change 

 with regard to the admission of persons other than Fellows 

 on Sundays. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



ADMIT 



AND PARTY, 



TO THS GARDENS^ HSGENT'S PABK^ 



TO THZ Z^USBVM^ 28, ZiI!ICE3TSIl SQUAHE, 



BY ORDER OF 





Extract from Regulations. — 'Strangers may be admitted either to 

 the Gardens or Museum, by Orders from Fellows, upon payment of Is. 

 by each Person. — Fellows with two Companions, Persons holding named 

 Tickets with one Comi)anion, and Honorary, Foreign and Correspond- 

 ing Members, only can be admitted on Sundays.' — The Gardens are open 

 from Nine o'clock, a.m. to Sunset; the Museum from Ten to Five. 



Just about the time when the offices at Leicester Square 

 were opened, an article on the Society appeared in the Quarterly 

 Review which contained some interesting references to the 

 Museum and the literature describing the collections: 



We well remember the first public meeting for forming such an estab- 

 lishment [the Zoological Society] in England. It seems but yesterday— how 

 thefugaces anni have sped along ! — that Davy drew attention to the subject, 

 and Raffles so powerfully seconded the proposition. These great men have 

 since passed away to the house appointed for all living, but the Garden and 

 Museum of the Zoological Society of London are not to be forgotten in the 

 catalogue of their public services. 



The author quoted the Annettes des Sciences of November, 

 1835, and the instructions of M. de Blainville for the voyage of 

 LaBonite to show that the Zoological Museum possessed "many 

 specimens wanting in the French collections " (i.e. of the Jardin 

 des Plantes), and continued : 



That these materials have not been neglected is proved by the five 

 volumes of Proceedings already published, containing the descriptions of 



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