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will have been more than well expended ; for a world-wide known painter 

 of animals is calculated to shed more real credit upon a nation than is an 

 entire army of imported criminal good-for-nothings down in the east 

 side of New York City or any other American city. All this likewise 

 applies most forcibly to the nature classes we occasionally see at the 

 Zoo,— the sculptor in search of correct poses of animals for his art; the 

 scientific taxidermist; the artist and the biologist, and an hundred 

 others of the classes that make up the great scientific, artistic and 

 learned body of people of the country. 



Fig. 5. Wild Swans in Winter. (Feeding Grounds.) 



AA'e must be patient, however, and all will come to pass in due time; 

 even congress delights in making generous appropriations to national 

 successes, — but to make the venture a veritable success, there's where the 

 rub comes. 



"What we really need, in addition to what has already been put on 

 foot at our Xational Park, is the establishment, on a broad basis, of a 

 thoroughly equipped department of photography for the animals kept 

 there, and what is even more important, a department of anatomy, with 

 a recognized anatomist at its head. It should be his duty to make as 

 complete a report as possible on the anatomy of every animal that dies 

 at the park, and such reports should be fullv illustrated and prepared 

 for publication in any appropriate government avenue. There should 

 also be a laboratory established for this purpose, and such material as 

 came to the dissecting table worthy of preservation should, together with 

 the skeleton of the animal, be sent to the National ^Fuseum for the de- 

 partment of comparative anatom}' — a department that, at one time, was 

 the envy of scientific Europe and the greatest possible credit to Amer- 

 ican science. 



