WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY 
in 1858, and that his long and very interesting communi- 
cation had nevertheless been neglected and put aside for 
nearly eight years, the officials of the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion would appear to have treated Dr. Canfield with very 
scant courtesy ; unless they disbelieved his statements, 
aud that it was only after my paper was published that 
they thought it worth while to notice them. 
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