ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS AND AQUARIA FOR BOSTON 



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These plans have been worked out with the 

 greatest care by those most famiHar with such 

 estabhshments elsewhere, and most competent 

 to judge how they can be developed to serve 

 the best interests of the community. Foreign 

 institutions have been copied only so far as 

 they are best adapted to our wants, and at 

 every step the interests of the general public 

 and of education have been independently stud- 

 ied, as well as the best methods of exhibiting 

 natural objects and their modes of life. 



The establishment is to be divided into three 

 distinct departments, in accordance with a natu- 

 ral distribution of organic forms; and incident- 

 ally a great advantage will thereby be gained, 

 since the inhabitants of different parts of the 

 city Avill be brought into near proximity to some 

 part of the ground occupied. These three 



divisions are to be placed at Franklin Park, in 

 the neighborhood of Jamaica Pond, and at City 

 Point. 



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