108 MEMORIAL TRIBUTE 



I did not succeed in finding the College of Surgeons, 

 and coming upon Park Crescent and Square, I visited 

 the Colosseum in the Regent's Park. The Panorama 

 of London, for the exhibition of which this building was 

 erected, struck me as being the grandest feat of art which 

 I have seen. The deception was to me quite perfect. 

 The saloon for works of art I found also highly interest- 

 ing. The other appendages, viz. the conservatories, 

 caverns, and Swiss cottage, were very pretty and amusing. 

 The" African Glen, "containing stuffed animals, I thought 

 inferior to everything else, although interesting to a 

 zoologist. 



I then visited the Zoological Gardens on the north 

 side of the Park. They are laid out with great taste, 

 and contain a very large collection of animals disposed 

 in suitable habitacles. If I had time, I should find it 

 very instructive to study the attitudes of the animals, 

 especially the birds. To the zoological painter collections 

 of living animals must prove of the greatest importance. 

 It is in fact utterly absurd to draw from stuffed skins. 



Thursday, IQth September 1833. 



Went in the first place to the Excise Office, where 

 I found my old friends Mr. Murray and Mr. Linning, 

 both of Edinburgh. Mr. Linning urged me to remove 

 to his house, and remain a week or so in town, to see 

 the museums more leisurely. I then went to Lincoln's 

 Inn Fields, and delivered my letter of introduction to Mr. 

 Clift, who informed me that the Museum was shut, and 



