ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS—LOISEL. 429 
The garden is administered, under the general direction of the 
secretary, by a superintendent, a former member of the constabulary, 
who lives in the garden and has under his orders ten keepers of 
animals, one night watchman, one gardener, one porter, and several 
young boys. 
The expenditures of the garden in 1905 were as follows: 
& Sx ids 
Purchases?.oteamini all Soe eee eee ee ee ee 1945) Gs 
Provisions fOr animal Sees = eee en Be ee, eee ee ae 804 138 6 
Printing.andsstatio mer yee ee eee tees eee en ede 510 0 
Advertising 2232522 Z LS ee en ee ee ENE i ee 104 2 6 
Building wanderepairs =e eis 2 oy ee eee bE ee : 607 14 9 
Watet: -ratezs2s 2 ea Rees 8 8 Se DE A fad BEN et AR age 99) 6010 
SEM ECT eg (st ie ses he See SVR chee a ke ee ne, eet ee A ee ee i Tee et ee aren --. 1099) t4y 0 
eatin s: Mig tine se bees pet ae ee ee ee ee ee ee Oe eS 
ii 0) it 8 ee ee al eis ee el ee nn OE Mie Ee Vy Ce el Rees aD 3, 387 6 4 
The garden is open every day from 9 a. m. until sunset. If forms 
a part of the magnificent Phoenix Park, situated to the west of the 
city. It is elongated in shape, being some 1,600 feet in length by 
about 700 in width at the widest part, but the western half of the 
garden is occupied by a fine, large pond, bordered by broad, grassy 
slopes, covered with trees and shrubs. The remainder of the garden 
is made up of lawns, with some trees, but few flowers; there is a house 
for the superintendent, a restaurant, and a certain number of build- 
ings, paddocks, aviaries, etc., in which live 711 animals, as follows: 
Number.} Species. 
Manmals======= Je ats AS Sh Se Sk Se Be aS Bee 3 Sn eS Re ee 215 90 
Birds 2.2 eee a ee a ee Ee es eee 408 113 
Reptiles=.==_2— 5 3 eS ee ee eS Se ee 15 ij 
Batrachians 232. eee eae ee ee ee ed ee ee 4 2 
Wish. 2. =7ek Se eae ee ee oe ae APS oh ee ee OR gee Rey eee 69 12 
Of this number, in 1905, 217 were presented and 120 purchased. 
The primates are placed for the most part in a well-ventilated 
building whose general arrangement recalls, on a smaller scale, the 
monkey house of the garden at London. In a corner of this house 
the society has constructed, for the anthropoids, four large cages 
communicating with each other, two of which open toward the gar- 
den, from which they receive light and air abundantly; the two others 
face toward the interior of the house, from which they are really 
separated by a large glazed bay. These cages are raised 1 meter 
above the floor of the building, the space underneath forming a sort 
of cellar in which are contained the conduits for hot air; the cage 
floor is of wood impregnated with wax dissolved in petroleum; the 
partition walls are hollow so as to favor the circulation of the hot 
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