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Vol. I. 



PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 22, 1874. 



PHILADELPHIA ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 



Zoological Gardens for Philadelphia have been a dream 

 for many years, and spasmodic efforts have been made from 



time to time, to produce the reality, but, until recently, noth- 

 ing tangible has resulted. The idea has been too inchoate 

 to develop much enthusiasm, and year after year our citizens 

 have returned from enjoying the 

 delights of foreign gardens, and 

 mildly wondered, in the true Phila- 

 delphia style, why we should not 

 have them. In connection with the 

 Industrial Exhibition, by which it 

 is intended to celebrate the century 

 of the nation, and to gather together 

 the products, inventions, and other 

 indications of our national progress 

 and wealth, the Zoological Garden 

 of Philadelphia deserves immediate 

 attention as an additional, and next 

 to the grand exhibition itself the 

 principal, attraction to the hundreds 

 of thousands who will visit the City 

 of Brotherly Love in 1876. The plan 

 herewith annexed, prepared by Mr. 

 H. G. Schwazman, Landscape Engi- 

 neer, now chief engineer of the 

 proposed Centennial buildings, shows 

 the ground which has been granted 

 by the Commissioners of the Pair- 

 mount Park to the Philadelphia 

 Zoological Society, and the manner 

 in which it is proposed to lay it out. 

 The gentleman who have taken the 

 matter in hand are well-known for 

 their energy and breadth of view, 

 and if sustainedin their endeavors 

 will carry out the scheme in a man- 

 ner worthy of this great and grow- 

 ing city. 



In undertaking this work they 

 have the advantage of the experience 

 and counsel of similar societies in the 

 old world, and particularly of the 

 magnificent London Zoological Gar- 

 dens, the officers of which are ex- 

 tremely interested in the success of 

 the enterprise here, and are prepared 

 to aid, by advice and contributions, 

 the Philadelphia Garden. A descrip- 

 tion of the English society may be 

 useful in forming an opinion of the 

 feasibility and advantages of the pro- 

 posed schemes. The London Zoologi- 

 cal Society was organized in 1826, un- 

 der the auspices of Sir Humphrey 

 Davy, Sir Stamford Kaffles, and other 

 of eminent men, for the advancement 

 PLAN OF THE PROPOSED ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. of z0 °l°gy and animal physiology, 



