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Lincoln's Inn Fields. Several of the learned societies boast the possession of 

 libraries and valuable scientific collections. The Eoyal Society, the Geological 

 Society (the first of the kind founded), the Anthropological Institute, the Linnean 

 Society, and more especially the Royal Geographical, which has taken the initiative 

 \n so many voyages of exploration — all these societies prosper, and have the 

 command of revenues which enable them to increase their collections to the profit 



Fig. 99. — Kew and Eichmond. 

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of science.* The Zoological Society, installed in a portion of Regent's Park, owns 

 the finest collection of living animals in the world, and attracts annually close 

 upon a million visitors. There are Horticultural and Botanical Societies, both m 

 the enjoyment of fine gardens, but they are far inferior to the Botanical Gardens 

 at Kew, which are the richest of their kind in the world, and are maintained 



* The Royal Geographical Society has nearly 4,000 members, and enjoys an annual income of 

 £12,000. 



