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STATE OF ZOOLOGY 
cultivators of natural science, and how the co-operation, and 
occasional presence, of that eminent Archbishop, the Cardinal 
Bonald, placed in the station of Albo, the first Honorary 
President, would add to the splendour of those meetings ; in 
which it is daily becoming more fit that the ministers of the 
sanctuary should take an active part, inasmuch as they lead 
by a more or less direct path from visible to invisible wonders, 
and by the ministry of the first-born daughter of God they 
pay homage to the Maker and Founder of all things. But the 
volume of Transactions of that most numerous Congress, which 
is now in the press, will at once give a full account of the state 
of natural science, and of the ever increasing splendour of the 
scientific establishments of the second city of France. In what 
more particularly relates to Zoology, and especially to Verte- 
brata, the Abbe Croizet, who supplied to Cuvier, to Blainville, 
and others, so many fossils of his native Auvergne, and who is 
himself well acquainted with these objects, not only filled with 
much honour the office of President of the combined sections of 
Zoology, Botany and Mineralogy, but exhibited many objects 
of much interest and novelty, and occasionally entered into 
general discussions on the Animal Kingdom. In that city of 
Lyons, are the ornithological collections of M. Fleuret, which is 
very complete in Birds of Europe ; that of Dr. Bifieri ; and the 
fine one of M. Boursier, who was deputed by a Lyonese Society 
to come here, and to whom we owe those fine photogenic draw- 
ings, admired in several sections, and well adapted to represent 
natural objects with ease and fidelty. In his collection are an 
abundance of rare species of Humming Birds, the new ones of 
which he has published in beautiful coloured plates, as you see 
in the specimens which I have presented in his name to the 
section. Would that my prayers could induce him to publish 
the wished-for Monograph of the gem-adorned family of Tro- 
cliilidoe, for which his collection, united with those of Loddiges 
and of Leadbeater, which he could easily visit in England, 
would suffice to supply him with all the materials hitherto 
known. If a person, who like myself, has given but little 
attention to this family, might venture to give him advice on 
the sub-division of these birds, it would be to recommend him 
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