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went after him and said, " Fred, why don't you 

 go and dance too ? If you don't learn to dance 

 you will never please the ladies ! " He looked 

 up with a grave face and said, impressively, " For 

 that very reason I never wish to learn ! " 



'June 18. — Accouchement of Madame Giraffe 

 at her residence in the Zoological Gardens, of a 

 son. The mother standing licking some salt. 

 The nurses had given the young gentleman some 

 warm cow's milk out of a sucking bottle. It is 

 wonderfully well formed for so recent an animal. 

 It is like a big one reduced in size. Its mother 

 will not allow it to go near her. Sir P. Egerton, 

 who called and came with us, told me that deer 

 left their new-born for a day or more, and that 

 the little creatures lay without nourishment until 

 the mother chose to come to them. The keepers 

 said we need not hurry away, as the mother rather 

 liked company than not. Mr. Whewell brought 

 R. two MS. numbers of his great work 6 to-day 

 for R. to look over.' 



' 25M. — R. to the Zoological Society. He 

 intends to read his remarks on the young giraffe.' 



' 26th. — -R. at the last minute made up his 

 mind to see " Henry V." under Macready's man- 

 agement. He returned highly pleased, and said 

 that Macready seems to have done for Shake- 

 speare much as he had been trying to do for 

 John Hunter.' 



6 Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences. 



