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MEMOIR OF 
shoulcl be content to pass llu'oupti tSvfi vent of my life 
without aiming at any tiling fiiillier, bcyoiul tlieoc- 
copation of my Fiparc time in piomating^, as far as my 
hmtilile means and (ulfnts fuinritted, tiipi pursuits of 
knowk'tigt,* md Hcit'iii-e, am] ihn advaiicfmrat of phi- 
laitlliropic imtl n^ligioua pnncipltjs/' Thm murking 
out for Kimsdf a courwe of at tive einploymt-ut. 
Tilt' lovtj of retirement ami free intf rt-uui ht! with na- 
ture, wraried him of Loruion, titul stion Eifter liiis arriviJ 
in England he puri hast-d the esialM of liighwood, not 
far from tofvn» wlucli he intendetl t-houltl be bla bead 
quarters. His time was in the mean lime aclivdy 
employed iu aiTungin|!; from recollection pam of his 
reisearflii'S in the East, and in examiuiiif^ vi hot be ImJ 
been enabled to eolleci during his Hhori &tay atDea- 
coohin after the burning of the Fame. He now ex- 
pressed his opinion of the possihilisy of a Society 
itonievvhat upon the plan of the tiarden of Plants, 
and enlihted in bin cause the Bcrvices of Sir U um- 
pbry Davy. To bis cousin, in tlie full enthuNiuHm of 
success, be writes : " 1 am mm b intrretited at pre- 
aent in establishing a grand Zoological Collection in 
the Metropolis*, with a Society for the introcfutiioQ 
of living' aninialfl, heai'iii*^ the Kame relations ta 
Zoology as a i^cierice, that the Honirultoral doen to 
Botany. We hope to have 2000 suijscribers, at 
1j.2 each ; and, it is farther expected, we may go far 
beyond the Jardin des Plantes at Paria. Sir Hum- 
pbrey Davy and myself are the projectors. And 
while be looks more to the practical and immediate 
