New worlds, new animals
Subtitle: from menagerie to zoological park in the nineteenth century
By: edited by R.J. Hoage and William A. Deiss ; with a foreword by Michael H. Robinson.
Contributors: Hoage, R. J.; Deiss, William A.; National Zoological Park (U.S.)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: National Zoological Park (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.; Zoos -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.; Menageries -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-189) and index.
"Published in association with the National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution."
Most of the chapters are derived from papers delivered at a symposium held Oct. 1989 to celebrate the centennial of the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological Park.