Description:Excerpt from Popular Official Guide to the New York Zoological Park: The publication of this revised and extended edition of the Guide to the Zoological Park is was purposely delayed a year, in order to make the work more complete. By slightly anticipating the completion of the Elephant House, Zebra Houses and Eagle Aviary, and including them herein, we are now able to offer a Guide Book to the Zoological Park as practically completed. The visitor is not to understand, however, that with the completion of the features named above nothing more will remain to be done. An institution of this kind never reaches a state of absolute completion, with no further possibilities of improvement. But the building of boundary walls, and the rebuilding of temporary entrances, are matters of small amount in comparison with the completion of a grand series of installations for animals, and buildings for public comfort. Few indeed are the persons who know, or who ever will know, the extent to which both the general design and the details of the Zoological Park have been originated, and hammered out of the raw materials. Prom the inception of the undertaking, the work of development has involved a continuous struggle to meet new conditions. Although precedents and models for things to be done were sought far and wide, in all save a very few instances, our needs were so peculiar, and so different from those of other zoological gardens and parks, we have found really very little that we could copy. The abundant-room idea on which the Zoological Park was founded, and our desire for the full utilization of the works of nature, have from the first taxed the creative faculties of the Society to the utmost. It has been gratifying to find in other zoological establishments a number of features which we could utilize here, thereby saving ourselves something in the eternal grind of invention and experiment, and we have gladly made prominent mention of such cases. While it is possible to complete the equipment of animal installations, for a Zoological Park, and fill them with fine collections, the demand for more animals is continuous.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Popular Official Guide To The New York Zoological Park As Far As Completed. To get started finding Popular Official Guide To The New York Zoological Park As Far As Completed, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Popular Official Guide To The New York Zoological Park As Far As Completed
Description: Excerpt from Popular Official Guide to the New York Zoological Park: The publication of this revised and extended edition of the Guide to the Zoological Park is was purposely delayed a year, in order to make the work more complete. By slightly anticipating the completion of the Elephant House, Zebra Houses and Eagle Aviary, and including them herein, we are now able to offer a Guide Book to the Zoological Park as practically completed. The visitor is not to understand, however, that with the completion of the features named above nothing more will remain to be done. An institution of this kind never reaches a state of absolute completion, with no further possibilities of improvement. But the building of boundary walls, and the rebuilding of temporary entrances, are matters of small amount in comparison with the completion of a grand series of installations for animals, and buildings for public comfort. Few indeed are the persons who know, or who ever will know, the extent to which both the general design and the details of the Zoological Park have been originated, and hammered out of the raw materials. Prom the inception of the undertaking, the work of development has involved a continuous struggle to meet new conditions. Although precedents and models for things to be done were sought far and wide, in all save a very few instances, our needs were so peculiar, and so different from those of other zoological gardens and parks, we have found really very little that we could copy. The abundant-room idea on which the Zoological Park was founded, and our desire for the full utilization of the works of nature, have from the first taxed the creative faculties of the Society to the utmost. It has been gratifying to find in other zoological establishments a number of features which we could utilize here, thereby saving ourselves something in the eternal grind of invention and experiment, and we have gladly made prominent mention of such cases. While it is possible to complete the equipment of animal installations, for a Zoological Park, and fill them with fine collections, the demand for more animals is continuous.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Popular Official Guide To The New York Zoological Park As Far As Completed. To get started finding Popular Official Guide To The New York Zoological Park As Far As Completed, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.