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and a breed, fairly domesticated, is with difficulty brought back 

 to its original state. 



" Should the Society flourish and succeed, it will not only be 

 useful in common life, but would likewise promote the best and 

 most extensive objects of the scientific history of animated nature, 

 and offer a collection of living animals, such as never yet existed 

 in ancient or modern times. The present menageries of Europe 

 are devoted to objects of curiosity. Rome, at the period of her 

 greatest splendour, brought savage monsters from every quarter of 

 the world then known, to be shewn in her amphitheatres, to 

 destroy or be destroyed, as spectacles of wonder to her citizens. 

 It would well become Britain to offer another, and a very different 

 series of exhibitions to the population of her Metropolis ; — animals 

 brought from every part of the globe to be applied to some useful 

 purpose as objects of scientific research, not of vulgar admiration; — 

 and upon such an institution, a Philosophy of Zoology founded, 

 pointing out the Comparative Anatomy, the habits of life, the im- 

 provement and the methods of multiplying those races of animals 

 which are most useful to man, and thus fixing a most beautiful 

 and important branch of knowledge on the permanent basis of 

 direct utility." 



March \st^ 1825. 



On Wednesday, June 22d, a public meeting of the friends to 

 the Institution took place at the Rooms of the Horticultural 

 Society, the Earl of Darnley in (he Chair; when a Committee of 

 Noblemen and Gentlemen was chosen to further the objects of 

 the Society, Sir Stamford Raffles being appointed the Chairman. 



Persons desirous of belonging to the Society, will signify their 

 wishes, by letter, to Mr. T. Griffiths, 21, Albemarle-street, 

 London. 



We hope to report the further progress of this Institution in 

 our next Number. 



