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Dr. MANN'S 

 LECTURE TO 

 A.A.U.W. 



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Mann*' S3 l d ° r - Wi «« 

 Mann S p eakm on ^ 



of Zoos, at the monthly lun- 

 cheon meeting held yes4da y 

 °y the A. A. U. W af *u 7 

 American Club. "W e half' 

 J?- for the adyancernent o 



S C oft n h df0rthe entertk 

 ment of the public " 



in a humorous stra, n speakm §- 

 Nmevah, where was dt 



was placed bv it, each .animal 

 Greeks Jov<J V,*! name - The 

 earliest ^consisted S" 1 th6 ? r 

 of peacocks ken??, f a P air 

 gentleman ' whn Pt Z a wealthy 

 friends for C ^ arged hl * 



bad- y ar d K them in his j 



which therfta ^.^S* 200 «*t 

 ledge was founded fn Cbti ^ B0W - 

 emperor of an earlv ^ ^ ° y an 

 called "Intelhgetcf y * ^ 



appeared to have had s\- , a ? d 

 and education^ obfect s -SL entlfl = 

 went Romans also h »J e . an ' 

 numbers of wnT • d Jar «" e 

 captivity. lld anin) als in 



and r, emymo,oS,f n °^ d u zooi °«ist 



were the* e&nt^f ^zoo ^ I 



Later tfhl a i the loca ' brewery 

 Park'he M *° Wnco,n 



scraper to clean cages^ere^ 

 cja ' l a £ fc this work, he 



ffl; horn he it C !s ge m b „ eing » S 

 fortable for all concerned ,f C °% 

 occupant ls distuX^ U e t 



Years later Dr. Mann retuzned 



did not require or send them tn 

 the zoo at Philadelphia S, t 



years m f 5. Bla 9 kb u™, now d 

 years of age and the most noted 

 ammals expert in th e world at 

 gave 1 £ Vnk™ 6 ^ Circ " k *• 

 f$ c U h P a|e ln o k f th!°Uln r g ie o d f Ine 

 National Zoological Park 



^^Sfcfc,' tiling 

 mang e with oil and medicament/ 

 and on persuading the owners Iff 

 the circus that lt was « 



ms, it became the property of 

 the nat on A kangaroo was 0 btata 

 ed for mstalments of guineaS 



build!nr n t ts „ eaCh ' and the fift 

 Dunding to be constructed was 

 the reptUe house, always The 

 most popular house at a zoo, I>r 

 Mann affirmed with an extea en-' 

 trance charge for visitors, except 

 at the London Zoo where the 

 aquarium was the majora^trac! 



That was forty-nine years asro 

 and now Mr. Blackburn theS 



SL 97 ^ en , and contains about 

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An the days when people had 

 money and used to give it away, 

 said Dr. Mann, a member of a 

 wealthy, philanthropic family 

 which is known internationally 

 for the charitable institutions it 

 has endowed, visited the Wash- 

 ington Zoo with his wife, and Dr. 

 Mann was eagerly anticipating a 

 substantial donation when lie 



^%fu d ? e Iady ask her husband, 

 Why do they have zoos?" 



The London and Berlin zoos, 

 said Dr. Mann, were the largest 

 m the world. 



,p r - Mann told some stories 

 about the animals he had captur- 

 ed, and about those which had got 



S Wa if*/ n .^ frica 0n one occasion 

 he had 460 natives carrying net* 

 like a 2,000 foot long fence which 

 formed a circle a mile i n diam- 

 eter and had caught five water- 

 hogs in three minutes. On an- 

 other occasion rounding up ani- 

 mal in a cane field .with a cluster 

 of yp]\wz , natives, brandishing 

 spears, a Hon had woken up aa^ J 



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X* sl1 ^: W0 «nd. He claim- 

 tSL three shillings baksheesh but 



Finally Dr. Man n invited all h^ 

 1 n eare ^ to visit the Nationaf Zoo 

 ogical Park at Washington wh en 

 1*7 ™ r& ^ the United Stlt4 



Mrs. W. E. Dunn thanked him 



°£r an e ^ terta inin? address 1 

 n« S ; ^ ann and the American 

 Consul-General, Mr. B MoSSSt 



m^nf an , d ^ Davis were a^ 

 ?r esen t at the luncheon. Dr. and 

 Mrs Mann are sailing on Fri- 

 ™* h Z *5« B razil. They returned 

 recently from a trip to San Car- 

 3os de Banloche. Mrs. Mann" is 

 auth01 ? s ^ her own 

 fl ght ;, w her m T ost recent book be- 

 ing From Jungle to Zoo/* Dr. 

 Mann is the author of "Wild Ani- 

 mm In and Gut of Captivity,'* 

 Which olraamaine i in the Smitti- 



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