ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



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the layman, any zoological collection embodied 

 hut one thought, a prison for the animal and a 



tluir turn are preyed upon by small carnivores 

 rs]iecially equipped for that purpose. 



"As the proof of the pudding is the eating," 

 the general attendance for ten years — over 11,- 

 000,000 — would indicate that the educational 

 value of the Park is thoroughly known. Our 

 statistics include a carefully kept record of 

 classes from the public schools and from many 

 of the public institutions of New York City 

 and the surrounding country, which also con- 

 tributes a fair percentage. 



All these classes are not only cordially wel- 

 comed, but are encouraged to come on the days 

 when no admission is charged, in order that they 

 may see all the collections at the least possible 

 expense. The figures appended herewith will 

 prove conclusively to what extent the Zoological 



BOYS FROM THE SHELTERING GUARDIAN SOCIETY. 



mob to watch either its struggles for liberty, or 

 pitiful resignation to its fate. 



Since that time, the development of the Park 

 has been sufficiently broad to convince not onlv 

 the critics but the world at large that such a col- 

 lection could be made upon lines that are a rad- 

 ical de])arture from those of the typical zoo ; to 

 exhibit the animals and not imprison them, and 

 to so arrange the species as to show their places 

 in the zoological scale, with elaborate labels ac- 

 curately describing their function in maintaining 

 nature's equilibrium. To make this arrangement 

 more graphic, groups have been selected to show 

 the species that depend for existence ujjon cer- 

 tain forms that are destructive to crops ; the 

 rodents that destroy grain, that are themselves 

 devoured by reptiles ; and the reptiles tliat in 



Society has contributed to the cause of education 

 in New York : 



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