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Museum at Macao-Mr. Beale's splendid aviary and gardens-The Paradise bird-Natural history of this splendid creature-Anecdotes-Superb magpie-Loris-Description of the aviary.
A museum has been established at Macao, by the English residents, and even now contains an extensive and excellent collection of birds, beasts, weapons, fossils, &c. from all parts of the world. Several rooms are appropriated solely for this collection, having a person to take charge of them, and attend upon visitors. So little encouragement, however, is given to natural science, and the European merchants are so much absorbed in mercantile affairs, that, on the dissolution of the establishment of the Honourable East India Company, this excellent nucleus for an extensive, valuable, and, (with scientific arrangement,) useful collection, will no doubt be broken up and dispersed.