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and intelligent work, entitled, ‘ The Gardens 
and Menageries of the Zoological Society,’ 
and which is stated to be ‘ Published with the 
sanction of the Council, and under the super- 
intendence of the Secretary and Vice-Secre- 
tary of the Society ;’—but you will observe 
that, every way with more accuracy, the name 
of the place in which we are, as described 
upon the title-page of the ‘ List’ which you 
have obtained at the gate, and which is now 
in your hand, is, not ‘ Zoological Gardens,’ 
but § the Garden [not the Gardens] of the 
Zoological Society.” 
‘‘ And yet there seems no objection, bro- 
ther,” said Mrs. Aston, “ to the term ‘ Zoo- 
logical Museum ?”” 
‘“¢ None at all, my dear,” replied Mr. Dart- 
mouth; ‘ for the Museum is a Zoological 
Collection or Repository ; and it is only be- 
cause, like Susan, we think of Gardens as 
places wherein something is grown, that the 
term Zoological Gardens is apt to be under- 
stood, and should, in strictness, mean, a place 
in which Zoology is grown! In the abstract, 
however, a garden is simply an enclosure, or, 
as we otherwise say, a park; and, with that 
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