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said Mr. Dartmouth, “ by that study of the 
animal creation, to the whole circle of which 
the labours and collections of the Zoological 
Society are devoted. The first is, the pleas- 
ing and innocent recreation which is afforded 
us by the simple view of so many forms of 
beauty and marvellous structure and adap- 
tation, and the endless displays of move- 
ments, habits, and manners which it com- 
prises; the second, the various advantages 
which, from time to time, and from instance 
to instance, we are capable of deriving from 
the several species, either for our necessities, 
or for our pleasures, and which it is reasonable 
to expect to multiply, in proportion as our 
acquaintance with the animal world is en- 
larged; and the third, the continual incite- 
ments with which the study is filled, to ad- 
mire from day to day, and daily to admire 
more and more, the wisdom, the goodness, 
and the power, which is and has been dis- 
played in their production; the continual 
appeal which it proffers to our most holy 
meditations, upon that infinity of form, and of 
utility, beauty, and happiness, in which con- 
sists the animal creation, from its highest 
