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Bulletin Mensuel de la Société d'Acclimalation de Paris. The April number contains much interesting information as to the work done by the Society, which besides gratuitously distributing specimens of various useful animals or plants wherever they are likely to thrive, also lends or lets to those persons, whose tastes or knowledge fit them for the charge, some of the rarer species of animal or vegetable life, thus sowing the seeds of miniature jardins d'acclimatation throughout the country. During the last 12 months 3 monkeys have been born at the Paris Gardens, one of them in March last. In that month 75 mammahia and 1,669 birds of various sorts were received, while the Society was able to distribute 62 mammalia and 1,731 birds. The Society aims at encouraging the reproduction of all sorts of useful animals, not merely confining its efforts to the maintenance of a stock for exhibition. An interesting account is given of an oyster breeding establishment and aquarium at Biarritz, and of the cultivation of silkworms in France generally. Our French neighbours have set us the example of cultivating our oysters; we may learn some day to follow in their steps' and turn our attention, so far as our climate will allow of it, to the “education” of silkworms. This art is becoming quite a recognised industry in France, and the success that has attended its adoption is very gratifying. Bamboos, Spanish broom (Stipa tencaissima), China grass or China nettles, Californian pines (Pinus sabiniana), are among the plants which are referred to as proper to be introduced into France.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 8, 57–58 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008057a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/008057a0