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I. ON Tuesday, April 14, Mr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., gave the Introductory of the twelve lectures which are to be continued during the spring. His remarks on that occasion were chiefly confined to the subject of Zoological Gardens in general. After an interesting account of the most important continental gardens, including those of Paris, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin, and Hamburg, he went on to speak of the different animals which thrive best in captivity, taking each order of each of the great classes of the vertebrata separately, and pointing out that whilst some, as the Carnivora, thrive well in confinement, others, as the Insectivora, can hardly be kept in a menagerie at all.
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The Lectures at the Zoological Society's Gardens . Nature 9, 489–490 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009489a0
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