THE NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN AT FRANKLIN PARK 



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HIS is to be installed on the city side 

 of tlie Playstead at Fvanklin Park in 

 , a cliarniino- bit of rocky woodland of 

 about twenty acres with very diversified surface, 

 called Long" Crouch Woods, a piece of land 

 which, on account of its lack of water, is only 

 suitable for the exhibition of terrestrial and 



aerial animals. A collection of tropical or sub- 

 tropical quadrupeds and other vertebrates could 

 not be kept up here without an exjienditure 

 far too great to be inidertaken in the initiation 

 of an enterprise as varied and extensive as the 

 present. It is deemed best, therefore, to ex- 

 hibit fully only the animals of the North Tern- 



