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Animals and their Diet . 
at the International Exhibitions, which has always been 
entrusted to the permanent officials of the Department of 
Science and Art, affords a very good illustration of this. Sir 
H. Tyler, M.P., in the House of Commons, on March ist, 
1881, asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether any, and 
if so what, arrangements had been made to afford facilities 
and meet the requirements of British exhibitors at the then 
forthcoming International Exhibition of electrical apparatus 
at Paris. The late Lord Frederick Cavendish, Secretary to 
the Treasury, said it was not intended to appoint a Commis- 
sion for the purpose named. Past experience in connection 
with international exhibitions of a general character had 
shown that there was no kind of expenditure more difficult 
to keep within bounds. The expenditure incurred had 
varied between the limits of £ 28,000 , spent in connection 
with the exhibition at Vienna, and £115,000, spent on that 
at Paris in 1867. 
(To be continued.) 
III. ANIMALS AND THEIR DIET.* 
tfg&ERTAIN faCts which have recently come before the 
public are drawing attention to the question “ How 
did animals first become carnivorous?” — a subject 
which is the more interesting as it naturally blends with the 
so-called “ Vegetarian ” movement. In taking the matter 
into consideration we must first cast aside two words which 
enable men to mystify themselves and their fellows. I refer 
in the first place to the term “ carnivorous.” This word is 
sometimes applied to beings which feed on animal matter in 
general, but it is, perhaps, oftener restricted to such as prey 
upon the larger animals. Thus some persons would assert 
that a creature which devours merely worms, snails, inseCts, 
&c., is not carnivorous, and in faCt zoological systematists 
have given the names InseCtivora and Carnivora to two 
* How Animals became Carnivorous. By T. R, Allinson, L.R,C.P. (In 
<f Field Naturalist ” for August.) 
