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went after him and said, “Fred, why don’t you 
go and dance too ? If you don’t learn to dance 
you will never please the ladies ! ” He looked 
up with a grave face and said, impressively, “For 
that very reason I never wish to learn ! ” ’ 
‘Jime 1 8. — Accouchement of Madame Giraffe 
at her residence In the Zoological Gardens, of a 
son. The mother standing licking some salt. 
The nurses had given the young gentleman some 
warm cow’s milk out of a sucking bottle. It is 
wonderfully well formed for so recent an animal. 
It is like a big one reduced in size. Its mother 
will not allow it to go near her. Sir P. Egerton, 
who called and came with us, told me that deer 
left their new-born for a day or more, and that 
the little creatures lay without nourishment until 
the mother chose to come to them. The keepers 
said we need not hurry away, as the mother rather 
liked company than not. Mr. Whewell brought 
R. two MS. numbers of his great work*’ to-day 
for R. to look over.’ 
‘ 2^th. — R. to the Zoological Society. He 
intends to read his remarks on the young giraffe.’ 
< 26//^. — R- at the last minute made up his 
mind to see “ Henry V.” under Macready’s man- 
agement. He returned highly pleased, and said 
th^at Macready seems to have done for Shake- 
speare much as he had been trying to do for 
John Hunter.’ 
Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences. 
