ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS 921 



and control, and to cooperate with the City of St. Louis in establishing, 

 maintaining and controlling suitable zoological parks, gardens, collections 

 and exhibits for the promotion of zoology and kindred subjects, and for the 

 instruction and recreation of the people, and particularly of the children of 

 St. Louis, (b] To exhibit wild animals under favorable conditions, (c) To 

 encourage and publish the results of zoological research, (d) To increase 

 public interest in wild animals, (e) To secure better protection of wild 

 animal life by educational methods. 



While the administration of the St. Louis Zoological Park is not under 

 the control of the society, it was the active agent in the original promotional 

 work which made the park possible. In 1915 at the instance of the society 

 the State Legislature of Missouri passed a law enabling the people of St. 

 Louis to vote upon the levying of a one-fifth-of-a-mill tax for building and 

 maintaining the Zoological Park of St. Louis. This law was favorably voted 

 upon by the people in 1916. Previous to this date (1913) the city govern- 

 ment by appropriate legislation set aside approximately seventy-two acres 

 in Forest Park and created a board of control for the administration of 

 the zoo. This board of control, originally appointed by the mayor, consists 

 of five city officials and four selected citizens. The city officials comprise 

 the commissioner of parks and recreation, city comptroller, mayor of the 

 city, president of the board of public service, and the vice-president of the 

 board of aldermen. Aside from the ex officio members the board now 

 elects its own members. Up to the present time the citizen membership 

 has always been chosen from the membership of the zoological society. 

 The superintendent of the zoological park, who also acts as secretary of 

 the board of control, and the architect and superintendent of construction 

 are ex officio members of the board. St. Louis presents the only example 

 in the United States of a special municipal or public managing authority 

 of a zoo. A very distinguishing feature of the plan of management is the 

 close cooperative relationship existing between the Board of Control and 

 the Zoological Society of St. Louis. 



Another example of close cooperative relationship between a public 

 managing authority and a strong zoological society is to be found in Mil- 

 waukee. The Washington Park Zoo, one of the notable zoos in the United 

 States, is almost wholly financed by the park department and is under its 

 direct management. The Washington Park Zoological Society is an organ- 

 ization of citizens (586 in 1924) with the following objectives: (a) To enlarge 

 the Milwaukee Zoo. (b) To exhibit animals under favorable conditions. 

 (c) To foster and encourage zoological research, (d) To increase public 

 interest and public knowledge in wild animals, (e) To secure better pro- 

 tection of animal life by educational methods. (/) To attract people from 

 out of town to visit Milwaukee. 



