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THE ZOOLOGIST. 



fish. This arrangement is both instructive to the local public 

 and of interest to the visitor from abroad.* 



5. Halifax, England. 



Zoological Gardens. 



In July, 1910, the Zoological Gardens at Chevinedge, Salter- 



hebble, near Halifax, in Yorkshire, were only fifteen months old, 



but they were well worth going a long journey to see, and they 



reflected great credit on Mr. A. R. McKill, the Director. 



Chevinedge, Yorkshire. Site of Halifax Zoological Gardens. 



The site is very fine. On the projecting angle of a plateau is 

 a level garden of green trees dotted here and there with white 

 and red cages ; from the edges of this plateau there are grand 

 views of hills and dales, and wooded rocky banks slope down 

 to the river in the valley below, and all in a strong, healthy 

 hill air. 



The area at present occupied is twenty-four acres, but another 

 twenty acres can be eventually taken in if necessary, and among 

 the various schemes proposed for the future perhaps the most 



'■'■' The Aquarium in the " Flora" Gardens, Cologne, which I had seen in 

 1905, I revisited in 1910, and found all the tanks empty. 



