ZOOLOGICAL 
CLASS FROM MORRIS HIGH SCHOOL. 
the layman, any zoological collection embodied 
but one thought, a prison for the animal and a 
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their turn are preyed upon by small carnivores 
especially equipped for that purpose. 
“As the proof of the pudding is the eating,” 
the general attendance for ten years—oyer 11,- 
000,000—would that the 
value of the Park is thoroughly known. 
educational 
Our 
statistics include a carefully kept record of 
indicate 
classes from the public schools and from many 
of the public institutions of New York City 
and the surrounding country, which also con- 
tributes a fair percentage. 
All these classes are not only cordially wel- 
comed, but are encouraged to come on the days 
when no admission is charged, in order that they 
may sce all the collections at the least possible 
expense. The figures appended herewith will 
prove conclusively to what extent the Zoological 
BOYS FROM THE SHELTERING GUARDIAN SOCIETY. 
mob to watch either its struggles for liberty, or 
pitiful resignation to its fate. 
Since that time, the development of the Park 
has been sufficiently broad to convince not only 
the critics but the world at large that such a col- 
lection could be made upon lines that are a rad- 
ical departure from those of the typical zoo; to 
exhibit the animals and not imprison them, and 
to so arrange the species as to show their places 
in the zoological scale, with elaborate labels ac- 
curately describing their function in maintaining 
nature's equilibrium. To make this arrangement 
more graphic, groups have been selected to show 
the species that depend for existence upon cer- 
tain forms that are destructive to crops; the 
rodents that destroy grain, that are themselves 
devoured by reptiles; and the reptiles that in 
Society has contributed to the cause of education 
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in New York: 
CLASS FROM WEST FARMS PUBLIC SCHOOL. 
