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efficiently afforded to public institutions for 

 the cultivation of natural science ; until every 

 facility be afforded for the prosecution of the 

 study ; until we have national menageries wor- 

 thy of the name; and until the profession of 

 the naturalist shall be raised into a source of 

 respect and emolument *. 



The local, colonial, and commercial advan- 

 tages that England possesses, the high interest 

 and utility of the science, in fine, the national 

 honour, all call for this consummation, so de- 

 voutly to be wished, and we heartily trust the 

 call will not be long in vain. 



Holland and Switzerland have contributed 

 not a little to the advancement of this branch of 

 science. Spain appeared for a while to start from 

 her long indifference for Natural History, and 

 produced some celebrated botanists in the new 

 world. But the only Spanish zoologist worth 

 naming, is Don Felix Azara, whose researches 

 on the animals of Paraguay are excessively va- 

 luable. The Portuguese, the Danes, the Poles, 

 and the Russians, have cultivated Natural His- 



* The recent loss Zoology has sustained in one of 

 her most accomplished practical cultivators and liberal pa- 

 trons, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, will not, we trust, 

 long impede the advances she seemed likely to make under 

 his powerful auspices. 

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