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acclimatization. 
is deficient, the other arranged as a hospital for sick birds. 
I must not stop to mention the curious fowl-yard, the pride 
of the genuine acclimatist, but I may just remind the reader 
that the most useful fowl we have in England is due to the 
prescient acclimatist who first introduced to Europe the 
domestic cock and hen. 
“ Further on, we find the space reserved for the annual 
exhibitions; and continuing our route, the paddocks of the 
larger animals, such as the yaks, oxen, sheep, and goats, 
every specimen of which is there to work out the problem 
indicated by the donor. Coming back, the beehives meet 
our view. In the summer, lessons are regularly given upon 
bee-training and cultivation, properly called apiculture. 
ce The aquarium is now no novelty; the one here pre¬ 
sented is wonderful in its details and arrangement. We are 
apt (led by experience) to consider an aquarium as a reposi¬ 
tory of weird-looking shapes, which we were content to 
know mostly resided at the bottom of the sea, and we were 
sometimes tempted to consider their abode appropriate; 
certain it is that scientific children have done their utmost 
to bring this useful institution into pardonable disgust. 
Here, however, the salmon, trout, carp, and eel, may be 
studied in a tolerably correct imitation of their actual homes ; 
whilst in another compartment sundry sea-water groups, and, 
in regular succession of time, the eight thousand species 
which constitute the class called fish, may be carefully exam¬ 
ined. This alone may give some idea upon what a scale this 
practical scheme of education has been devised. 
“ Leaving the aquarium, we gain perhaps the most inter¬ 
esting spot in the whole garden, the c Garden of Experi¬ 
ment/ where the different plants, grains, and seeds that have 
been received from time to time by the society are in process 
of cultivation, and on which should be inscribed the motto, 
‘Failures constitute success.’ Such of our members who 
are so nervously timid about the establishment on their own 
premises of a museum of practical experiment and apparatus, 
would do well to witness the rapid progress lately made in 
applied zoology and botany in the field-laboratory' of the 
Garden of Acclimatization, a progress that will not be slow 
in bearing a direct influence on pharmacy itself. 
“ Here are presented, under different modes of cultivation, 
and flourishing with every imaginable variation of success, 
more than four hundred species of plants, destined to serve 
for food, for medicinal purposes, or else capable of industrial 
application.” 
To some of these Mr. I nee gives a special notice, after 
