FANCIERS’ JOURNAL 
AND 
POULTRY EHXCHANGEH. 


Vout. PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 22, 1874. No. 4. 


PHILADELPHIA ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. time to time, to produce the reality, but, until recently, noth- 
“ZootoaicaL Gardens for Philadelphia have been a dream ing tangible has resulted. The idea has been too inchoate 
for many years, and spasmodic efforts have been made from | to develop much enthusiasm, and year after year our citizens 
- SS} have returned from enjoying the 
delights of foreign gardens, and 
mildly wondered, in the true Phila- 
delphia style, why we should not 
have them. In connection with the 
Industrial Exhibition, by which it 
is intended to celebrate the century 
of the nation, and to gather together 
the products, inventions, and other 
indications of our national progress 
and wealth, the Zoological Garden 
of Philadelphia deserves immediate 
attention as an additional, and next 
to the grand exhibition itself the 
principal, attraction to the hundreds 
of thousands who will visit the City 
of Brotherly Love in 1876. The plan 
herewith annexed, prepared by Mr. 
H. G. Schwazman, Landscape Engi- 
neer, now chief engineer of the 
proposed Centennial buildings, shows 
the ground which has been granted 
by the Commissioners of the Fair- 
mount Park to the Philadelphia 
Zoological Society, and the manner 
in which it is proposed to lay it out. 
The gentleman who have taken the 
matter in hand are well-known for 
their energy and breadth of view, 
and if sustained in their endeavors 
will carry out the scheme in a man- 
ner worthy of this great and grow- 
ing city. 
In undertaking this work they 
have the advantage of the experience 
and counsel of similar societies in the 
old world, and particularly of the 
magnificent London Zoological Gar- 
dens, the officers of which are ex- 
tremely interested in the success of 
the enterprise here, and are prepared 
to aid, by advice and contributions, 
the Philadelphia Garden. A descrip- 
tion of the English society may be 
useful in forming an opinion of the 
feasibility and advantages of the pro- 
posed schemes. The London Zoologi- 
cal Society was organized in 1826, un- 
der the auspices of Sir Humphrey 
Davy, Sir Stamford Raffles, and other 
cl of eminent men, for the advancement 
of zoology and animal physiology, 




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