416 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON ZOOLOGICAL INSTITU- 

 TIONS EECENTLY VISITED IN EUROPE. 



By Capt. Stanley S. Flower, F.L.S. 



(Concluded from p. 345.) 



13. Stuttgart, Wurtemberg. 

 (i) Zoological Gardens. 



If anyone, wishing to start a zoological garden in the British 

 Isles, were to ask me which one of the standing menageries, 

 public and private, would best repay them to study before 

 embarking on their enterprise, I should say, as far as my 

 present (May, 1911) experience goes, that, of the forty-eight 

 menageries I have actually inspected, the Tiergarten, at Doggen- 

 burg, near Stuttgart, would be the most profitable to visit. The 

 site is small, the collection is small, and the animals are of no 

 great value, but the arrangement is such that everything is 

 exhibited to its best advantage. The lover of animals who visits 

 Doggenburg will carry away with him the impression that he 

 has seen but few species, but these all carefully provided for and 

 happy ; the schoolchild will have seen the principal types of the 

 vertebrate fauna of Europe, and enough exotic ones to excite 

 his further interest ; the casual visitor will not know exactly 

 what he has or has not seen, but will feel satisfied that he has 

 had "his money's worth." 



About five years ago Herr Nill's famous, though small, 

 zoological garden in Stuttgart had to be closed, as the site was 

 required by the State. A new railway station is now being 

 built on it. Meanwhile Herr Theodor Widmann contemplated 

 starting a really large zoological garden in the capital of 

 Wurtemberg, and, to begin with, having purchased Herr Nill's 

 cages, opened, about 1907, a small garden at Doggenburg, a 

 suburb on the heights above Stuttgart. Herr Widmann then 

 proceeded to travel about the world in order to visit other zoolo- 

 gical gardens and collect notes on their management. When I 

 was staying in Stuttgart in May, 1910, Herr Widmann had not 



