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the executive Superintendent. Illustrated guide-books and 

 annual reports are published. 



80. Crystal Palace, Sydenham. — An aquarium, a small 

 menagerie and some waterfowl in the gardens have been long 

 maintained in this institution : this collection has recently 

 (1907) been augmented by the loan of the large private menagerie 

 belonging to Mr. Eobert Leadbetter of Hazlemere Park, Buck- 

 inghamshire. An illustrated guide-book of this latter is pub- 

 lished. 



81. Dublin. — An account by Prof. D. J. Cunningham, 

 F.R.S., of the origin and early history of the Royal Zoological 

 Society of Ireland, which was founded in 1830, was published in 

 1901. The Society is governed by a Council, the President for 

 1908 being the Right Honourable Jonathan Hogg, the Honorary 

 Secretary is Dr. R. F. Scharff, of the Dublin Museum. Mr. 

 Thomas Hunt, who had been resident Superintendent since 

 February 1890, retired in 1907, and Captain L. C. Arbuthnot 

 was appointed to succeed him, and took over the duties from 

 the 1st of December, 1907. Illustrated guide-books and annual 

 reports are published. 



82. Edinburgh. — A Zoological Garden formerty existed in 

 the capital of Scotland ; a short account of what it contained in 

 May 1858 by " W. C. M." was published in the ' Scotsman ' for 

 the 15th of September, 1908. 



A movement is now on foot to re-start a Zoological Garden in 

 Edinburgh, a provisional Committee has been formed, Messrs. 

 James Anderson and T. H. Gillespie have been appointed Joint- 

 Secretaries and Mr. W. Burn Murdoch the first Treasurer. 



83. Glasgow. — The so-called " Scottish Zoo," founded about 

 1901, in the New City Road, Glasgow, which belongs to Mr. 

 Bostock (Bostock and Wombwell's Menagerie), is reported to be 

 closing this year. 



Mr. William Nicol, ex-Bailie, has recently, in the ' Glasgow 

 Herald ' for the 4th of February, 1909, made practical suggestions 

 for a Municipal Zoological Garden in Glasgow. 



84. Ipswich. — The Municipality of the county-town of Suf- 

 folk have a small collection of live animals, I am told, in a 

 public park. 



85. Liverpool. — A Zoological Garden was founded, if my 



