214 Zoology. 



Beauties of Nature, or the Curiosities of Art, he has endeavoured 

 to render it worthy of the British Metropolis, whilst he has also 

 provided this means for enlargement, as future additions shall 

 accumulate. 



" One department of the Museum (the Pantherion), completed 

 with much labour and great expense, is entirely novel, and 

 presents a scene altogether grand and interesting. Various 

 animals, as the lofty Giraffe, the Lion, the Elephant, the 

 Rhinoceros, etc., are exhibited as ranging in their native wilds 

 and forests ; whilst exact models, both in figure and colour, of 

 the rarest and most luxuriant Plants from every clime, give 

 all the appearance of reality ; the whole being assisted with a 

 panoramic effect of distance and appropriate scenery, affording 

 a beautiful illustration of the luxuriance of a torrid clime. 



" The Museums of France have been enriched with the spoils 

 of nearly the whole Continent, and the Gallery of the Louvre 

 contains more treasures in Painting and Sculpture than perhaps 

 will ever again be amassed in one Collection. But though her 

 active and persevering Ruler, desirous of making his capital the 

 centre of attraction, has contributed to the Museum Naturale 

 every specimen of Natural History which in the present state of 

 the Continent could be procured, our unrivalled Navy, and the 

 extension of our Colonies throughout the habitable world, present 

 such advantages to this country, that the writer feels confident, 

 that if his exertions are seconded by the Public as they have 

 hitherto been, he will very shortly be enabled to make a collec- 

 tion of Natural History far surpassing anything of the kind at 

 present in existence ; and he pledges himself to exert his utmost 

 power in accomplishing this important work. 



" To the numerous Royal, Noble, and liberal Contributors to 

 his Museum, by whose kindness his Collection has been enriched 

 by so many valuable articles, which could not have been procured 

 by pecuniary means, Mr. Bullock returns his unfeigned thanks. 



" When the information and delight which may be derived 

 from this Exhibition, especially by the rising generation, are con- 

 sidered, the great sum expended in forming it, and the erection 

 of the present large and commodious building for its reception, 

 the Proprietor trusts that the terms will be approved of. 



" Admission to each Exhibition, one shilling Annual 



Ticket, not transferable 11. Is Subscriber for Life 101. 10s. 



" Museum, Piccadilly, 

 March 28, 1812." 



