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ing for the first time that Nature has at length truly answered 

 the question so often put in so many varied and doubtless 

 imperfect forms before ; a delight enhanced by the feeling that, 

 having asked aright, we have been answered truly, for — 



Nature never did betray 

 The heart that loved her. 



A fine specimen of the Himalayan vulture, recently presented 

 to the Society by Surgeon-Major Crosse, and admirably set up 

 by Mr. John Darragh, excited much interest. 



