Excerpt from List of the Vertebrated Animals Now or Lately Living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London The object of this List is to enable those interested in the living collection of the Zoological Society of London to ascertain what species of Vertebrated Animals have been represented in the Menagerie during the past twenty years. It is also of great use to enable the specimens exhibited from time to time to be labelled on a uniform system. The first edition of the List was issued in 1862, and contained the names of all the animals that had been living in the Society's Gardens at any time during the previous year, with their habitats, and the dates and modes of their acquisition. In the second edition, issued in 1863, the animals living in the Society' s Gardens from the lst of January to the end of May of that year were given in a similar form. In the third edition, which was completed for press on the lst of January, 1865, the names of all specimens received by the Society during 1864 were added to the List. In the fourth and subsequent editions the names of all the vertebrated animals added to the Society's collection during the following years were inserted in their proper places. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.