WESTPHALIAN ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN, MUNSTER 87 



(Everyone hits the right nail on the head who com- 

 bines the useful with the beautiful). 



The restaurant was completed for the opening of the 

 Garden in 1875. The great hall, with its ante-rooms, 

 was originally destined for a scientific and artistic 

 museum ; but the people, as of old, hungered more for 

 pleasure than for science, so that the whole of the 

 scientific collection had to be removed to the lumber- 

 room above, and a theatre and stage took its place. 



According to the opinion of Carl Hagenbeck, the 

 monkey house at Miinster is the best erection of its 

 kind in the world. The monkeys can be outside or 

 inside as they please all the year round. In conse- 

 quence of this the house has been copied by many 

 other Gardens. The wolves' grotto was built in 1883. 

 The bear pit carries the following peculiar inscription : 



' Cette belle et gracieuse villa 

 L'on doit et I'ours an gorilla — 1881.' 



This is explained when we are told that in 1881 

 Professor Landois travelled round the towns of West- 

 phalia with the skeleton of a gorilla, and held popular 

 scientific lectures upon it ; the money obtained he 

 presented for the building of the bear pit. Many 

 have been born here. There is a female polar bear 

 with a male brown bear, and hopes are expressed that 

 some day there may be a piebald bear-cub. 



The aquarium is a present from the Evening Society, 

 and was built out of the profits of the play called 

 'King Belle' in 1886. 



The owl tower was built from the profits of another 

 play. 



