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^ -OOLOGY. 



[Sect. XL 



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In these researclies collect and preserve the skeletons, both human 

 and of other animals that may be buried or preserved with man: with 

 any works of art or implements. 



Besides the skeletons, or, at least, the skulls of aborigines of foreign 

 countries; plaster casts of the head, the hands, and the feet should be 

 taken ; and wherever the opportunity may occur, the brain should be 

 preserved in strong alcohol. 



Important aids to the advancement of zoology may be 

 rendered by the transport of liying animals, and more 

 especially their transmission to the Menagerie of the 

 Zoological Society of London, for which purpose the fol- 

 lowing remarks have been contributed by a former Vice- 

 President of the Society, William John Broderip, Esq., 



" In the endeavour to bring a captured animal home 

 alive, it will be well to remember that the younger 

 quadrupeds and birds are, — provided they are of an age 

 to be separated from the mother with safety, — the greater 

 wall be the chance of success in bringing them home in a 

 thriving state. There is hardly any young vertebrated 

 animal which iudlcious kindness will not render familiar. 



and should be fed 



The captive should be kept 

 sparingly ; that is, it should have only sufficient to sustain 

 it in health ; — all trash should be kept out of its reach 

 and it should not be subjected to the capricious kind- 

 ness or ill-treatment of strangers. 



*^ Herbivorous quadrupeds, and hard-billed or seed- 

 eating birds, are obviously most easily accommodated 



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during a voyage ; but carnivorous anim.als and insecti- 

 vorous birds may be transported without much difficulty 

 by paying attention to their food and habits. 



'' It would be far from impracticable for ingenuity to 





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