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are far in advance of any thing we in this country can show. 
It seems strange that, though we have for years past attracted 
the best available foreign zoological artists, our efforts to ob¬ 
tain the best stuffers of birds and other animals appear to have 
been of the feeblest description. The result is that in our great 
museums, where alone this, the aesthetic branch of the sub¬ 
ject, can and ought to be cultivated on an extensive scale, it 
is treated with indifference, and thus our galleries rendered 
far less attractive than they otherwise might be. 
