ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS—LOISEL. 443 
old and the paintings which ornament their walls have so faded that 
some of them are almost invisible. However, independently of the 
scientific interest that it presents, the garden does not lack in charm, 
and certain verdurous nooks ornamented with statues are worthy of 
the finest zoological gardens. 
I was not able to ascertain the total number of animals existing in 
the garden at the time of my visit (October, 1906). There were, 
apparently, about 500 mammals; the number of other animals is very 
variable. 
In one house, heated to 15° C., there was an orang-outang in com- 
pany with a macaque. These animals were kept in a large, isolated 
cage, surrounded by a corridor glazed externally which separated 
them from the public. The orang has lived in the garden for five 
years without ever having been sick. Its continual activity and 
the brightness of its eyes were in striking contrast with the slow move- 
ments and sad looks of the orangs that I had previously seen in other 
gardens. How amusing, too, were the antics and struggles of these 
two monkeys! As is always the case, it was the smallest and weakest 
that was the most aggressive. Ata certain moment the macaque was 
seated at the entrance to the exterior corridor the door of which had 
been opened for me; he was watching attentively the movements 
which I made in mounting my camera. But he annoyed the orang 
who, remaining in the cage, wished also to see; after making several 
ineffectual efforts to push the macaque aside, the orang seized him by 
the tail and threw him back roughly. The macaque, furious, uttered 
piercing cries and threw himself on the orang, who paused for a 
moment, quite astonished at such violent anger; then, calm, without 
apparent haste, jumped from side to side of the cage, always avoid- 
ing the macaque, who became more and more furious. The keeper, 
fortunately, put an end to the struggle by calling to the two monkeys, 
who immediately obeyed him; he opened the door of the inner cage 
and the orang, with kindly countenance, posed graciously before my 
camera, which seemed to puzzle him a good deal. agiay 
The bear house, placed opposite the lion house, dates from 1897. 
It is a fine semicircular structure. The circular cages contain brown 
or black bears of various species. The brown bears produce young, 
but do not rear them. The white bears are placed in a large central 
cage which has at the back a rocky construction with cavities into 
which the females may retire. They have young every year and, 
unlike the brown bears, rear them very well. 
The aquarium, which is one of the curiosities of the garden, dates 
from 1877. In that year the municipality of Amsterdam, which 
had already created a university, gave to the Royal Society of 
Zoology a piece of land comprising 2,735 square meters, in the im- 
mediate vicinity of the garden, under the condition that the society 
