60 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



COPENHAGEN (Director, Th. Alving) 



The Copenhagen Zoo was founded by a private society and or- 

 ganized as a stock company. Its income is something over $100,000 

 a year, and its attendence 400,000. The 18 acres of this park are well 

 laid out and beautifully cared for, and are adjacent to a large public 

 park. It has a good collection. 



The new monkey house has several unique features. The ceiling 

 and walls in the visitors' part are black. The cages are lighted from 

 above, and one entire side is a conservatory, separated from the 

 public by glass, and containing large cages for the great apes. These 

 cages have oak parquet floors imbedded in asphalt. Vita-glass is to 

 be installed in the hospital and receiving cages. On the outside of the 

 building is a row of conventional cages, but at either end is a barless 

 pit backed by the building, inhabited by baboons and mangabeys. 



Chief among the animals is the female Indian elephant, now, very 

 old, but distinguished for having borne three young in captivity. 



ANTWERP (Director, Dr. Michel L'hoest) 



This is one of the older zoos, and the most convenient of all for the 

 tourist, as the entrance adjoins one side of the railroad station — in 

 fact the station serves as part of the boundary of the zoo. 



The buildings are very large, with a great deal more space than 

 is usually provided for the visitor; some of them are beautifully 

 decorated. The aquarium and reptile house are together. There is a 

 " laiterie," a large room with tables where milk is served. The cows, 

 each one pedigreed and named, are kept in the same building sepa- 

 rated from the public only by a glass partition. 



The collection is one of the most remarkable that we saw. The 

 only okapi in captivity had been in the zoo for six months. This 

 animal stood about four feet high at the shoulders, was very tame 

 and in fine condition. Nearby were two giraffes from the Lake Chad 

 country, kept behind glass, and an elephant from the Congo, one of 

 the herd that has been domesticated in the Katanga as work animals. 



Antwerp has the only shoebill in any European zoo. The collection 

 of raptorial birds was the finest that we saw in Eiu'ope. 



AMSTERDAM (Director, Doctor Sunier) 



The Amsterdam gardens, opened in 1838, are the third oldest in 

 Europe. This is a healthy zoo for directors, for during the past 91 

 years there have been only three directors, including the present in- 



