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As to zoology, properly so called, there are also 

 abundant materials. 



Mammalia, between the Zoological Society's collec- 

 tion, the British Museum, and the Hunterian a very 

 extensive series. 



Birds in the Zoological Society, British Museum, etc. 



Reptiles in abundance. 



Fishes less complete, all the other departments in 

 one degree or other. 



After all there cannot be a perfect naturalist who 

 has not studied long in the metropolis ; but study 

 there will not of itself make a naturalist. Yet museums 

 are evidently indispensable. 



I have seen no good collection of insects, but there 

 are many private ones in London. 



In mineralogy the British Museum is almost com- 

 plete ; but one cannot study this science without being 

 allowed to handle the specimens. 



For the geologist, the Geological Society's collec- 

 tion and the organic remains in the British Museum 

 and elsewhere. 



Sunday, Z2nd September 1833. 



Having slept too long, I was not out in time to go 

 to the Scotch Church, near the Regent's Park, where 

 I had engaged to meet Mr. Linning, so I went to 

 St. Paul's. The interior of this building, I think, must 

 strike a stranger more than its exterior. After morn- 

 ing service I crossed the river by Southwark Bridge, 



