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of them, an astonishing increase. We saw an American bald eagle 

 that had lived there for 55 years, and a family of European eagle 

 owls with two babies hatched in the park. 1 



The Hagenbeck Zoo at Hamburg had made a number of the im- 

 provements that Heinrich Hagenbeck had told us about on our last 

 visit 9 years ago. These included a wonderful barless enclosure where 

 10 elephants, of 2 species, made a great show. Twenty Patagonian 

 cavies run loose around the grounds. The exhibition of seals is excep- 

 tionally fine and includes a sea leopard from Antarctica. 



Hanover, a city of 550,000 people, maintains a fine Zoo under the 

 direction of the Ruhes. Some of the buildings are new, and others 

 date back 50 years and more. King William presented a lion house to 

 the Zoo in 1867 and it still stands. 



It would take a large volume to describe the Berlin Zoo. We lived 

 there for 5 days and saw something different and spectacular each 

 day. They had two gorillas and were raising a number of rare species. 

 Crested partridges or roulrouls, Heck's Celebes ape, Gelada baboons, 

 black leopards, and boatbills all had young born or hatched in the 

 Park. 



The Zoo at Nurnberg has not changed since 1929 because it is to be 

 demolished and an entirely new one built. The new garden is to be 

 55 hectares, and to cost 4^ million marks at the start. We understand 

 that 150,000 marks have already been appropriated for the purchase 

 of new animals. 



The Geo-Zoo at Munich, where the animals are arranged by conti- 

 nents, is a notable breeding establishment. Many species of native and 

 foreign animals are allowed to run loose in the park, and although 

 the number of species is not as great as in some other Zoos, the herds 

 in general are much larger and most spectacular. 



The new aquarium is superb, and the great-ape village with its 

 various wings and large playgrounds for the chimpanzees, gibbons, 

 and orang-utans, is the last word in quarters in which to exhibit and 

 study these animals. 



The Zoo at Zurich is only 9 years old and yet has developed remark- 

 ably. The animals' cages and enclosures are arranged in terraces on 

 the side of a hill rising above the city. There is a good collection, 

 including a pair of giraffes, a new lion house, and a splendid restau- 

 rant building. 



Since we saw the Jardin des Plantes at Paris some years ago, it has 

 been remodeled into a new and modern institution, with a big new 



1 Now on their wav to the National Zoological Park. 



