Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-20
THE WORLDS ZOOS.
The Geological Gardens of New York, London
and Other Cities.

The Geological Gardens of New York, London
and Other Cities.
There are forty-eight geological gar
dehs in the world, six of them being in
the United States, located as follows
Philadelphia, New York, Cincinnati, Chi
cago, st. Louis and San Francisco. These
institutions care supported by the cities
or by local enterprise, instead of the
national government but in Europe there
is an entirely different state of affairs,
nearly every nation supporting its own
garden or park, and some of them sup
port several. Besides the great institu-
ton in London, Great Britain has parks
of this description at Bristol, Manches-
ter and Dublin. France has Two gardens
in Paris, each devoted in part to zoologi-
cal collections, besides those in Mar
settles and Tours. Belgium has two zoo
logical gardens, one at Client and the
other at Antwerp, while Holland has
three, one in each of the cities of Am
sterdam, tine Hague and Rotterdam.
The German cities provided with these
gardens are Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfort,
Dresden, Dusseldorf, Hanov IT, Munster,
Cologne, Breslau and Lelpsic; Italy has
ole at Turin, Austria one at Vienna,
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Petersburg and another at Moscow, Port.
ugal one at Lisbon, Spain one at Madrid,
Denmark one III Copenhagen, and Switz-
er and one in Basic. India has three
geological parks-at Calcutta, Bombay,
and Madras; Java one in Batavia, the
straits settlements one in Singa pore, and
Australia boasts of four-at Melbourne,
Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane. Chill,
South America, has 600" at st. Jago.
The greatest geological garden in the
world, says the Boston Transcript, is that
IN London, being situated in the very
heart of the city and a public street run
ming through it, which divides it into two
sections. Walls are erected along the
street and visitors GO from one section to
the other by means of tunnel passing
under the street. The grounds comprise
about sixty ACRES and are well filled with
buildings, ponds, etc. There are real
beaver ponds, aviaries, bear pits, monkey
houses, and really place for everything
in the animal line. This park was open
t d in 1928, az d during the last five years
the annual humber of visitors has aver
aged over 100000, while in 1886 there
were added to the collection of animals
1888.
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lists next to that of London and the two
in Paris, if combined, would make one
as extensive as any in the world. In
America the Philadelphia "Zoo" is the
most extensive so far as buildings and
collections go, and the enclosure com
prises thirty-three acres of Fairmount
park. In New York the collection of an
finals is kept in Central park, and has be-
come so extensive that many people OBJ
iect to having the park used for this
purpose, and there are pending in the
legislature two bills for placing the insti-
tuition on proper footing.
The Cincinnati Geological park en-
braces sixty-fve acres of suburban land,
and was opened in 1875. The Chicago
gardens are in the northern part of the
city, and have one of the finest herds of
buffalo to be seen. A project is on foot
for establishing another geological garden
at Rock Greek park near the city of
Washington.