226 ~ Notice of the late Mr. George Caley. 
gress of the undertaking ; and its eulogy would proceed with 
better grace from any potted individual than myself, whose 
pride it is to have been so confidentially associated in the 
task. I shall merely mention how nobly the exertions of 
the managers of the institution have been seconded by the 
feelings of the country. In the short space of three years, six- 
teen hundred individuals have united themselves to the Society. 
Within the same period, a magnificent preserved collection in 
every branch of zoology has been formed by the liberality of 
its supporters ; while upwards of three hundred and fifty 
species of animals, including examples of almost every larger 
group in zoology, have béen exhibited in a livi ing state in our 
gardens and museum, for the greater portion of which the 
Society is indebted to the same Tiber rality. When I add, that, 
during the same period, some hundreds of thousands of indi- 
viduals have visited the repositor ies where these animals have 
been preserved in all the vigour of life, and in the display, as 
far as possible, of their native dispositions and economy, you 
may judge how much has been effected, not merely for the 
recreation of so many individuals, but for the direction of 
their minds to the cultivation of the great truths of our 
science. 
I now, gentlemen, take my leave. J. commenced my address 
to you w ith feelings of regret; I conclude it with sentiments 
of triumph. The rec PepitalaGen: which it has been my duty 
to lay before you, of the events connected with our science 
during the last few years, have served to effect this change of 
feeling ; : for it has confirmed me in the conviction that we 
have not lived in vain. Our part has been amply performed, 
and we may now retire with honour from the scene. We 
have merged into a higher body, which bears with it our feel- 
ings, our “principles, and our predilections. Above all, our 
friendship will, I trust, ever continue equally active+ the 
delight and the pride of our future intercourse, as it has been 
of our past, — although the body in which it was first cemented 
is now dissolved. 
Art. Il. Further Notice of the late Mr. George Caley. 
By Witi1aM Wiruerina, Esq. L.L.D. F.L.S. 
Sir, 
Tuoucu the interesting article in your Obituary (Vol. II. 
p- 310.), respecting Mr. George Caley, w was obviously contri- 
buted by a writer well acquainted with the sterling integrity 
and extraordinary zeal of that almost self-taught Snatddvalises 
