It appears that our ever-active Park Commissioners are making vigorous efforts to establish a Zoological Garden in Central Park.

It has been generally supposed that gardens were either horticultural or agricultural; but if the Commissioners can get up anything of the kind which shall be zoological, Mr. PUNCHINELLO has not the least objection in the world.

It is obvious how, at this rate, our zoological hierarchy is turned topsy-turvy; and how difficult it will be to show that man is a better life-machine than, say, a mud-turtle with its centuries of vital existence.

Ida's contempt for the young man was too profound to permit of such a sentiment as hatredone can scarcely hate that which one scornsbut whenever he came near her with his tobacco and spirit-laden breath, she was conscious of an inward shudder which closely resembled that with which she passed through the reptile house at the Zoological Gardens.

In the spelling contest, he had stupefied his fellow students by nimbly rattling over such words as "megatherian," "stupendous," "zoological aggregation," and the like.

Yellowstone National Park 2,142,720 Arkansas Hot Springs Reserve and National Park 912 District of Columbia The National Zoological Park 170 Rock Creek Park 1,606 Georgia and Tennessee Chickamauga & Chattanooga Nat.

I would sooner live in the monkey-house at the Zoological than stay with either Lucy or Maud.'

A good many years ago, when the late Sally chimpanzee was the darling of the Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park, I watched her eating dates.

When I moved to another house I found that I could not continue to keep him, so I sent him to the zoological garden, where I visited him sometimes, but he never vouchsafed a token of recognition.

I believe you may see a chimpanzee in the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's Park.

Miss Rossetti went with us to the Zoological Gardens to satisfy his passion for natural history, and so far as kindness could compensate for his helplessness he lacked nothing.

* THE ELEPHANTS IN THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK.

[Illustration: THE ELEPHANT, IN THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK.

The annexed Engraving will probably afford the reader a better idea of the Zoological Gardens, than did either of our previous Illustrations.

There are two Elephants in the Zoological Gardens.

A few points, however, are peculiarly interesting in connexion with the individuals from India, in the Zoological Gardens.

The Minister of Marine, wishing to obtain scientific results, gave orders to form, when possible, a marine zoological collection, and to carry on surveying, deep-sea soundings, and abyssal thermometrical measurements.

The officers of the ship received their different scientific charges, and Prof. Dohrn, director of the Zoological Station at Naples, gave to the writer necessary instructions for collecting and preserving sea animals.

While the animal was on board we saw several Remora about a foot long drop from his mouth; it was proved that these fish lived fixed to the palate, and one of them was pulled off and kept in the zoological collection of the ship.

The Vettor Pisani has up the present visited Gibraltar, Cape Verde Islands, Pernambuco, Rio Janeiro, Monte Video, Valparaiso, many ports of Peru, Guayaquil, Panama, Galapagos Islands, and all the collections were up to this sent to the Zoological Station at Naples to be studied by the naturalists.

BOAK, ARTHUR E. R., ed. Karanis; the temples, coin hoards, botanical and zoological reports, seasons 1924-31.

Welch Scientific Co. (PWH); 10Feb64; R332011. Zoological charts.

Manufacturing Co. Zoological charts.

I found that I was crossing the bridge over the Regent's Park Canal, which runs parallel with that in the Zoological Gardens.

In no department of zoological science, indeed, are we quite so much in the dark as with regard to the deep-sea cephalopods.