ZOOLOGICAL 
SADDLE-BILLED STORK. 
Ghizeh Gardens, Egypt. 
this brief article is only to point out the lesser 
known zoological points of interest in Egypt. 
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BOSTON’S ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 
FTER several years spent in the considera- 
tion of ways and means, the proposition of 
the Massachusetts Zoological Society for a 
Boston Zoological Park is now about to mate- 
rialize. The original proposition of the Society 
was that the new institution should be located 
in the Middlesex Fells Reservation; but it was 
found that sufficient funds could 
tained with which to develop a great vivarium 
in that particular locality, which happens to be 
outside of the corporate limits of the City of 
Boston. The financial aid that was hoped for, 
and expected from the state legislature, was 
finally refused. 
It was then that the Mayor of Boston pro- 
posed that the Zoological Park should be located 
not be ob- 
SOCIETY 
BULLETIN. 
in a portion of Franklin Park, 
which would enable the City to 
utilize funds from the Parkman be- 
quest, with which to pay for the 
necessary improvements. Inasmuch 
as this appeared to be the only al- 
ternative, the Mayor’s proposition 
was finally accepted by the Zoolog- 
ical Society, and it is understood 
that forty acres of Franklin Park 
will be devoted to the new institu- 
tion. 
It is a satisfactien to be able to 
state that throughout the entire 
course of the movement for a Bos- 
ton Zoological Park, the Metropol- 
itan Park Commission has stead- 
fastly and earnestly favored it and 
has done its utmost to further the 
plan. The Commission offered to 
the Zoological Society a site in 
any one of the metropolitan parks, 
and long ago promised financial aid 
to the limits of its powers. On 
some accounts, it is rather unfor- 
tunate that the legislature did not 
choose to support the undertaking. 
The locating of the new institution 
in Franklin Park necessarily means 
a restricted area of land; but per- 
haps this will be compensated by 
superior accessibility. 
it goes without saying that all zoologists, and 
especially those who are interested in zoological 
gardens and parks, will rejoice in the fact that 
the plans of Boston are now about to material- 
ize. That the new institution will universally 
be called by its right name is too much to hope 
for; for in all probability it will be “zooed” from 
the beginning to the end of its chapter. We re- 
call that in one article published in the Boston 
newspapers regarding the proposal of the Mas- 
sachusetts Zoological Society, the thing desired 
was referred to sixteen times as a “zoo,” and 
never once was it called by its right name. We 
respectfully call the attention of all Boston 
editors to the fact that a sufficiently persistent 
misnaming of a zoological park can, in a meas- 
ure, belittle the best vivarium in the world, and 
outside of its own immediate sphere of influence 
persistent “zooing” can attach to it an idea of 
cheapness that is far from beneficial. Let it be 
