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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



SADDLE-BILLED STORK. 

 Ghizeh Gardens, Egypt. 



this brief article is only to point out the lesser 

 known zoological points of interest in Egvpt. 



C. W". B. 



BOSTON'S ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



AFTER several years spent in the considera- 

 tion of ways and means, the proposition of 

 tlie Massachusetts Zoological Society for a 

 Boston Zoological Park is now about to mate- 

 rialize. The original proposition of the Society 

 was that the new institution should be located 

 in the Middlesex Fells Reservation ; but it was 

 found that sufficient funds could not be ob- 

 tained with which to develop a great vivarium 

 in that particular locality, which happens to be 

 outside of the corjjorate limits of the City of 

 Boston. The financial aid that was hoped for, 

 and expected from the state legislature, was 

 finallj' refused. 



It was then that the Mayor of Boston pro- 

 posed that the Zoological Park should be located 



in a portion of Franklin Park, 

 which would enable the City to 

 utilize funds from the Parknian be- 

 quest, with which to pay for the 

 necessary improvements. Inasmuch 

 as this appeared to be the only al- 

 ternative, the Mayor's proposition 

 was finally accepted by the Zoolog- 

 ical Society, and it is understood 

 that forty acres of Franklin Park 

 will be devoted to the new institu- 

 tion. 



It is a satisfaction to be able to 

 state that throughout the entire 

 course of the movement for a Bos- 

 ton Zoological Park, the Metropol- 

 i t a n Park Commission has stead- 

 fastly and earnestly favored it and 

 lias done its utmost to further the 

 |ilan. The Commission offered to 

 the Zoological Society a site in 

 ■my one of the metropolitan parks, 

 and long ago promised financial aid 

 to the limits of its powers. On 

 some accounts, it is rather unfor- 

 tunate that the legislature did not 

 (I loose to support the undertaking. 

 The locating of the new institution 

 in Franklin Park necessarily means 

 a restricted area of land ; but per- 

 haps this will be compensated by 

 superior accessibility. 

 It goes without saj'ing that all zoologists, and 

 especially those who are interested in zoological 

 gardens and parks, will rejoice in the fact that 

 the plans of Boston are now about to material- 

 ize. That the new institution will universally 

 be called by its right name is too much to hope 

 for ; for in all probability it will be "zooed" from 

 the beginning to the end of its chapter. We re- 

 call that in one article published in the Boston 

 newspapers regarding the proposal of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Zoological Societ}', the thing desired 

 was referred to sixteen times as a "zoo," and 

 never once was it called by its right name. We 

 respectfully call the attention of all Boston 

 editors to the fact that a sufficiently persistent 

 misnaming of a zoological park can, in a meas- 

 ure, belittle the best vivarium in the world, and 

 outside of its own immediate sphere of influence 

 persistent "zooing" can attach to it an idea of 

 cheapness that is far from beneficial. Let it be 



