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A YEAR AT THE ZOO. 
The Report of the Council of the Zoological 
Society for the sixty-fourth year of the existence of 
its “ Gardens ” in Regent’s Park will be read with 
interest by those whose curiosity extends beyond the 
menagerie which they see, to its management which 
is unseen. The public are only dimly aware of their 
debt to Dr. Sclater, the honorary secretary of the 
Zoological Society, and to Mr. Bartlett and his son, 
managers of the Gardens ; and the glimpse of a 
twelvemonth’s history — animal, personal, and financial 
— of one of the most pleasing and popular out-door 
institutions of London, explains much that is not 
at first obvious in a visit to the Zoo. Among the 
most evident improvements of recent years is the great 
and growing beauty of the Gardens, the fine turf 
and flowers, and the other amenities which, apart from 
the interest inseparable from the natural history collec- 
tions, have made possible in the precincts occupied by 
the Society a nearer counterpart of the out-door life 
enjoyed in the gardens of Continental capitals, than 
anywhere else in the Metropolis. The explanation of 
