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ILLUSTRATIONS OF 
But the wonders that are revealed in studying the 
habits and employments of living beings form but 
a small part of the bewitching pursuits in which the 
zealous zoologist may be engaged. To him is open 
the enquiry into the organization of the animal 
kingdom^ and the marvellous adaptation of the living 
parts to perform the functions for which Providence 
has formed them. To this branch of enquiry our 
zoological committee will doubtless call your atten- 
tion^ and there is every reason to hope that they may 
arrange to have lectures given on comparative anato- 
my^ by which the many striking proofs of design, in 
the formation of living beings will be clearly laid 
before you. 
I do not feel it necessary to extend further my 
general remarks on zoology ; but shall proceed to 
give some more particular details respecting the 
zoological productions of Worcestershire. The 
forests of Malvern, Feckenham, and Wyre, covering 
in ancient times a great part of Worcestershire, 
were receptacles for many wild mammalious animals 
now extinct. Whether the brown bear (Ursus 
arctos), formerly found wild in the north of Britain, 
ever inhabited our county, may be doubted. But it is 
certain that the wild boar fSus scrofaj, the stag 
(Cervus elaphus)^ the beaver ( Castor fiber), and the 
wolf (Cams lupus) ^ were all denizens of our wastes 
and forests. 
The beaver could not have remained long after the 
arrival of the Saxons, though that it was found here 
by that warlike people^ the names of two places in 
