Genre:

Introduction, Drollery; Extract, Proceedings, Spoof

Subjects:

Animal Behaviour, Periodicals, Mental Illness, Hospitals

    Presents examples of miscellaneous information from a periodical, which include a report of the noises made by a bear in the Zoological Society Gardens, an extract from a discussion of the obedience of 'animals of a bucolic character' to sheep-dogs, and an item concerning the favourable report from the 'Asylum for Idiots'.