Annual Meeting.] 
288 
[May 6, 
THE NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN AT 
FRANKLIN PARK. 
This is to be installed on the city side of the Playstead 
at Franklin Park in a charming bit of rocky woodland of 
about twenty acres with very diversified surface, called 
Long Crouch Woods, a piece of land which, on account 
of its lack of water, is only suitable for the exhibition of 
terrestrial and aerial animals. A collection of tropical or 
subtropical quadrupeds and other vertebrates could not 
be kept up here without an expenditure far too great to 
be undertaken in the initiation of an enterprise as varied 
and extensive as the present. It is deemed best, there- 
fore, to exhibit fully only the animals of the North Tem- 
perate zone of America, and thus to display to the best 
advantage those which one might see within the northern 
United States. As it is easier to obtain and maintain the 
animals from near home, by far the larger part of this col- 
lection will at all times be made up of those now or once 
natives of New England ; but side by side with our native 
animals a few of the corresponding types from other quar- 
ters of the globe will* be shown, in order to illustrate 
some of the more important features of the general distri- 
bution of life on the earth. 
An Insectary is also proposed in connection with this 
division, in which the transformations of our larger insects 
can be seen, and their ways of life, many of which are 
very interesting, can be followed ; ants can be made to 
reveal to the curious visitor their hidden ways and to 
teach wisdom, and the processes of experimentation for 
scientific purposes can be made intelligible to the public. 
Much of this will be an object of interest only or mainly 
during the warmer season, but a winter garden under 
