PREFACE 
The chapters on Animal ^Esthetics, included in 
these notes, dealing with the sensibility of the in- 
mates of the Zoo to music, will be found under 
the title of “ Orpheus at the Zoo,” by which they 
originally appeared in the Spectator , to the editors 
of which paper the author owes his thanks for 
suggesting many subjects of interest at the Zoo 
which would not have occurred to him, and for 
their kind permission to publish these, as well as 
other chapters in an extended form. He hopes that 
both these, and the unpublished chapters which are 
now added, present a fair picture of the many-sided 
present, as well as some glimpses of the past, of 
the famous menagerie in Regent’s Park. 
For the insertion of animal drawings by Japanese 
artists, in addition to Mr. Gambier Bolton’s photo- 
graphs, the writer must plead the conviction, which 
he has long maintained, that their truth to Nature is 
of its kind unrivalled. 
C. J. Cornish. 
Or ford House , Chiswick Mall , 
September 28, 1894. 
