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years. Aquarium-style lighting is used throughout, the visitor being 

 in subdued light — an arrangement which gives the best visibility we 

 have seen in such houses. Among the new features in the garden is 

 a house built especially for turtles and tortoises and containing a 

 large collection. 



\^^ith apparently every traveling or foreign-residing Britisher 

 bringing or sending home animals to the zoo, the collection stands out 

 among all others. Super-rarities that we saw were the marsupial 

 wolf and the takin. In the aquarium were all three species of lung 

 fish. 



Fig. 38. — Keeper with the rare New Guinea spiny anteater, 

 London. 



HANOVER (Director Mueller) 



The zoo at Hanover, formerly run by a zoological society, was 

 taken over by the city in 1924. Since that time the collection has 

 been greatly enlarged and a number of additional buildings have been 

 erected. The new monkey house has a deep space behind the cages 

 filled with palms and other plants and the outside cages are un- 

 usually high. A new small-mammal house is under construction. 



One of the interesting features of this zoo is a little outdoor en- 

 closure for guinea pigs with a house in the center, the whole separated 

 from the public by a cement wall only six inches high. When we 

 asked if people did not sometimes take these guinea pigs away, we 



