ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



603 



llARnAEV I. KIN.', 



WILD ANIMAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE CONTINENTS 



By ir. T. HORN AD AY 

 Director of the Zoological Park 



TO any person who is duly appreciative of 

 the mammalian life of the world, the op- 

 portunity to bring- together a series of 

 collections that will represent it, is irresistibly 

 attractive. To gather from the remotest cor- 

 ners of the earth a large number of strange 

 and interesting animal forms, and render them 

 available to the personal acquaintance of mil- 

 lions of knowledge-seeking people, is a task 



both pleasing and interesting. After all has 

 been said, the agents of commerce go no far- 

 ther nor faster than do the pioneers of science ; 

 and they take no greater risks. 



The gathering, transportation and exhibi- 

 tion of living animals is an industry in which 

 trade and science must work hand in hand. 

 The lines of every zoological society should 

 literally go "out to the ends of the earth." At 



