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Students, wishing to make comparative anatomy a part of their ac- 

 quirements, can, by being introduced to M. Cuvier, obtain permission 

 for a regular and daily frequentation of the cabinet. 



THE MENAGERIE. 



The gates of the menagerie are open all the year, from eleven to six 

 o'clock in summer, and to three in winter. There the public can walk 

 round the enclosures, and become thoroughly acquainted not only with 

 the animals, but also with the trees and shrubs, as a label bearing the 

 latin and French names is affixed in front of each park and suspended 

 to each tree. 



Some accidents having Droved fatal to the visitors, in the inside of the 

 dens or habitations of the animals, the keepers have orders to admit no 

 person unaccompanied by one of the professors or assistant naturalists. 



THE LABORATORIES. 



There are in the Museum proper places where the skins and remains 

 of animals are prepared and stuffed, in order to be placed in the galleries. 



These laboratories are not open to the public ; but such is the libe- 

 rality of this institution, that those who wish to become Acquainted 

 with the processes are admitted to assist and act as if they belonged to 

 the Museum, after being presented by one of the professors to M. Du- 

 fresne, who has the general direction of the zoological department, or 

 to M. Rousseau, for comparative anatomy. The same may be said 

 of the laboratory of chymistry, by applying to the professors, or to 

 M. Dubois, the assistant naturalist. 



It was intended to give here a short account of the methods used 

 in the Museum for preparing and stuffing the skins of animals ; but 

 since this work was begun, a gentleman, a friend to the editor, has 

 been at the trouble of translating into English M. Dufresne's article on 

 Taxidermy, or the Art of collecting, preparing, and mounting objects of 

 natural history, which was first published in Deterville's Dictionary of 

 natural history. The small 12 vol. in which all the desirable details 

 on the subject are to be found, has had two editions. As it can be 

 procured, and is sold in London, at MM. Longman, Hurst, and Co.'s, 

 Paternoster-row, we refer to it our readers who are desirous of becom- 

 ing thoroughly acquainted with the mode adopted for the preservation 

 of animal remains. 



