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THE council of the Zoological Society of Scotland, in pursuance of its project of raising the necessary funds for the purchase and laying out of the estate of Corstorphine Hill House as a zoological garden and park, as announced in NATURE of January 30, has issued a prospectus giving a brief account of the development of the modern zoological garden of the type the society wishes to establish, together with some suggestions regarding the benefits of such an institution to education, science, and art, and a full description of the site selected for the purpose. The prospectus is illustrated with scenes depicting enclosures and ranges in the New York Zoological Park and in Carl Hagenbeck's menagerie at Stellingen, which, with modifications, will serve as models for the kind of accommodation it is proposed to adopt for the animals in Edinburgh. Finally, there are many beautiful views of the grounds of the above-mentioned estate, which not only testify to the wisdom of the council in its choice of a situation, but suggest that, given the necessary funds for the purchase of stock and the upkeep of the collection, Scotland will be able to claim that it has at least the most picturesque zoological garden in Europe.
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A Zoological Garden for Edinburgh . Nature 90, 683 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090683b0
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