Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-04
THE WORLDS ZOOS.
The Geological Gardens Of New York, Lon
don and Other Cities.

don ana other Cities.
There are forty eight geological gar
dens in the world, six of them being in
the United States, located as follows
Philadelphia, New York, CINCINNATI
Chicago, ST Louis and San Francisco
These institutions are supported by the
cities or by local enterprise, instead OF
the National Government, but in Europe
there is an entirely different state of af
fairs, nearly every nation supporting its
own garden Or park, and some of them
support several. Besides the great ipsti-
tuition in London, Great Britain has
parks of this description in Bristol
Manchester and Dublin. France has two
gardens in Paris, each devoted in part to
geological collections, besides those in
Marseilles and Tours. Belgium has two
geological gardens, one at Client and the
other at Antwfrp, while Holland has
three, one in each of the cities of Ans
terdam, The Hague and Rotterdam. The
German cities provided with these gar
dens are Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfort,
Dresden, Dusseldorf, Hanover, Munster,
Cologne, Breslau and Leipsic; Italy has
one at Turin, Austria one at Vienna,
Hungary one at Pesth, Russia one &C ST.
Petersburg and another at Moscow,
Portugal one in Lisbon, Spain one
in Madrid, Denmark one in Copen-
hagen, and Switzerland one in BasIe
India has three geological park-at Cal
cutta, Bombay and Madras; Java one in
Singapore, and Australia boasts of four
at Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and
Brisbane. Chilli, South America, has a
"Zoo" at St. Jago. The greatest zoolog-
zeal garden in the world, says the Boston
Transcript, Is that in london, being sit
uated in the very heart OF the city and 8
public street running 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 a tunnel passing under the
street. The grounds com prise about
sixty acres and are well filed with build
ings, ponds, etc. There are real beaver
ponds, aviaries, bear pits, monkey
houses, and really a place for everything
in the animal line. This park was open ed
in 1928, and during the last five years the
annual number of visitors has averaged
about 100000, while in 1886 there were
added to the collection of animals 1888.
The Berlin park is ranked by natural
lists next to that of London and the tWo
in Paris if combined would make one
as extensive as any Ia the world. In
America the Philadelphia Zoo" is the
most extensive so far as building and
collections go, and the enclosure com
prises thirty three acres of Paramount
Park. In New York the collection of
animals is kept in General Park, and has
become so extensive thar many people
object to having the park used for this
purpose, and there are pending in the
Legislature two bills for placing the in
stitution on proper footing.
The Cincinnati Geological park en-
braces sixty five acres of suburban land,
and was opened in 1875. The Chicag o
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 gar
den at Rock Greek Park near the city of
Washington.