The formation of the Zoological Society next rendered the study more
popular, and the gardens in the Regent's Park at length made it
fashionable, and ensured it patronage. About this time Mr. Loudon
commenced his Magazine of Natural History, which has been very
successful: it is one of the most unique works ever published, both as
regards the spirit and research of the intelligent editor, and the good
taste with which the work is illustrated--the latter being a very
important feature of a work on Natural History.

The proceedings of the Zoological Society are, we believe, regularly
reported in the Zoological Journal, published quarterly, and edited by
N.A. Vigors, Esq., the ingenious secretary of the Society; but, valuable
and clever as may be this work, it is not calculated for extensive
reading. We are pleased, therefore, with the appearance of "_The
Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society_," which is popular
and scientific, and so elegant as to be fit for any drawing-room in
the empire. It is published with the sanction of the council, and is
superintended by the learned secretary; the descriptions, anecdotes,
&c. being furnished by E.T. Bennett, Esq. the vice-secretary.

The present number contains Engravings and Descriptions of the
Chinchilla, (about which all our lady-friends will be very curious);
the Ratel; the Wanderoo Monkey; the Hare-Indian Dogs, the Barbary Mouse;
the Condor; the Crested Curassow; the Red and Blue Macaw; the Red and
Yellow Macaw: all these and the tailpieces or vignettes appended to the
descriptions, are beautifully engraved. The Quadrupeds are, perhaps,
the most successful--the group of Hare-Indian Dogs, for instance, is
exquisitely characteristic. Of the literary portion of the work we
intend to present our readers with a specimen in our next number.