287 
[Annual Meeting. 
1891.] 
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS AND AQUARIA 
FOR BOSTON. 
The Reports of the Park Commissioners and of the 
Natural History Society have informed the public from 
time to time of certain movements on foot to secure for 
Boston suitable Zoological Gardens and Aquaria. It is 
the purpose of this circular to announce the completion 
of the general plans, and to show the practicabilit} 7 and 
desirability of establishing these institutions under the 
most favorable auspices. 
These plans have been worked out with the greatest 
care by those most familiar with such establishments else- 
where, 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 studied, as well as the best methods of 
exhibiting natural objects and their modes of life. 
WHERE THEY WILL BE SITUATED. 
The establishment is to be divided into three distinct 
departments, in accordance with a natural distribution of 
organic forms; and incidentally a great advantage will 
thereby be gained, since the inhabitants of different parts 
of the city will 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. 
