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CENTENARY OF THE ZOO.
THE NOAH'S ARK SOCIETY.
When the members of the Zoolo- gical Society of London assembled recently for their general meeting.
TUESDAY JUNE 8, 1926.
the plane of Decimus Burton for the laying out of the gardens were approvod, and 25.000 was appro priated for carrying them into execution. Finally, on April 27, 1828, the gardens were thrown open to the public,
A COLLECTION PROM THE TOWER. As has been stated, the exhibits they celebrated the centenary of the numbered about two hun- the foundation of their organian-dred. They included two beauti- tion, which was brought into ful. Hamas, a leopard, - kangaroo, hoing on April 20, 1826, and they and a Russian bear. Actually the were able to look back upon won-first animals which came into the derful achievements during a posession of the Society were a hundred years in the two distinct, griffin vulture and a white-hooded but equally arduous tasks, of com- eagle, presented by Mr. Joshua piling a zoological collection and Brookes, of the celebrated anato- catering for the sight-seeing nical school in Blenheim-street, public...
and wfemale deer from India, the The measure of success which gift of Captain Pearl. The vul- gallons of water.has attended the labours of the ture was known to the older century is reflected in the figures keepers as "Dr. Brookes," and The Fluid in
showing increase in specimens, must have lived in the menagerie income and attendances. When for nearly forty years. In 1831 the Canbec is the Gardens were first open the the King presented to the Zoo the exhibits numbered only two hun-Royal collection In the ancient guaranteed dred; the animals total 6,191. In menagerie at the Tower of London. 1827 the Society's income" was In the earlier years the atten- 14.079; in this year'a necounts the dance, of the public at Regent's corresponding entry gives the fine Park was tolerated rather than aggregate of £122,840. In 1829, welcomed; strangers were admit the first full year in which theted on the written order of a Gardens were open to the publie, fellow on payment of one shilling 13,994 persons were admitted; this each on certain days of the week. is only a little more than double After, the initial novelty of the the average attendance for one Zoo wore off, attendances, in view day ir. 1025, whon an aggregate of of the discouraging attitude of the 1,823,613 persons Dessed the authorities, fell off, and a change turnstilles.
of policy became essential if the To whom shall be assigned the menagerie were to pay its way. A credit of originating this "Nouh's beginning was made in 1842, when Ark Society," as it was termed it was decided to dispense with contemptuously at the time of its the necessity for the attendance Inception. Probably..to no one of a Fellow to introduce friends. man, for the inauguration of such Five years later, soon after the #fl organisation. had several Whitsuntide of 1847, the present advocates; but the title of Father system of admitting visitors on of the Zoo may be shared by Sir payment was introduced, and this Stamford Raffles, the first presi- was followed, in the succeeding dent, and Sir Humphrey Davy, April, by the reduction of the fee. with the balance slightly in favour on Monday, The changee or policy of Sir Stamford. In one ontry in was amply justified. In 1891, u the records of the Society the total of 258,936 persons were bonour is definitely assigned to admitted to the gardens. In 1841 Sir Stamford, there being à the number had dropped to minute, made by Lord Stanley, 182,616, but under the number placing on record the appreciation system it soon rose to new heights, of the Council of the services reaching 360,042 in 1850. rendered by Lord Lansdowne, in accepting office us president on the "Melancholy occasion of the death of the founder and first NEW PEKING CABINET. president" and the first president, was Sir S. Raffles.
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Tu Hsi-kuei and Yang Wen-kai ed prospectus Was circulated took up their cabinet posts to-day among those interested as early as and it is thought probable that Dr. 1824. In February, 1926, at a Wellington Koo and Chang Ching-" meeting at which Sir S. Rafflea huni will follow suit to-morrow,
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In May of 1826 the first vice- presidents were appointed, and a month later "offices were taken at 33. Bruton-street, a few doors away from where an important young lady was ushered into the world recently. Here for some years the Society's museum wis housed, and until the Gardena were opened some of the 'first animals were kept.
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