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The most important result accomplished thus far by our collection of Living Animals has been in emphasizing the great need of a national zoological garden, established in the City of Washington.  The many hundreds of eager visitors who daily crowd our menagerie building to the point of positive discomfort, and the numerous gifts which come to us unsought, have led Senator J. B. Beck to introduce in the U. S. Senate a bill "for the establishment of a zoological park in the District of Columbia, for the advancement of science, and the instruction and recreation of the people", and appropriating therefore, as an initial appropriation, the sum of $200,00^[[0]].  By direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Assistant Secretary, in charge of the National Museum, and also in pursuance of the desire of Senator Beck, the Curator has exerted his utmost efforts to help bring about the consummation of that much-desired and highly laudable end.