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must be recognised. Till then wait. Patience will have its 
reward. 
ON ACCLIMATIZATION. 
AIr. Joseph Ince has written a paper in the Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Journal on the above subject, adverting principally to 
the Society of Acclimatization of Paris, from which we 
purpose to cull such particulars as may interest our readers, 
at the same time somewhat condensing them. 
He commences by observing that— 
“ Ten years ago the subject of this paper could have been 
discussed only in the pages of a zoological journal; within 
this brief period the word Acclimatization has been invested 
with a far wider and truer meaning, and its study is con¬ 
nected with such a marvellous exhibition of progress, that no 
pharmaceutist should remain ignorant of its details. The 
term acclimatize has ceased to be restricted to the introduc¬ 
tion of a new animal to European soil; what is its latter sig¬ 
nification may best be gathered from the official records of 
the Imperial Society of Paris, of which there can be no happier 
summary than the opening speech of the president, Isidore 
Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire: 
^ We wish to found an association, hitherto without prece¬ 
dent, that shall consist of agriculturists, naturalists, landed 
proprietors, and enlightened men, not only in I'rance, but in 
every civilised country. Our design is to unite in furthering 
an object which truly needs the aid of every man, as it must 
conduce to the general advantage. It is no less than to 
people our fields, rivers, and forests, with new inhabitants; 
to increase the number of our domestic animals, that first 
source of riches to the cultivator; to augment and vary our 
alimentary resources, which are at present so insufficient; 
to create new economical and industrial products, and thus 
to endow our languishing agriculture, our trade, our com¬ 
merce, nay, society at large, with benefits hitherto unknown 
or neglected. These blessings will be no less precious here¬ 
after than those which former generations have bequeathed 
to us. Such is the work you have not feared to undertake, 
and I hesitate not to say that if few are so difficult, none 
could be greater or worthier the age in which we live—an 
age distinguished beyond all others for the splendid applica¬ 
tion of science to the welfare of the people.^ 
