Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr05thor (find matches)
Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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asses underthe roadway. The ground in this part of the garden is on the slope of the banks of the canal, 282 OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Regents Park. and constitutes a pleasant and shady walk duringthe summer months. The museum, the giraffes, the huge hippopotanuis, the elephants, &c., are inthis direction ; but of these, and some of the otheranimals, we shall speak more in detail presently. The Zoological Society of London, to whichthese gardens belong, and of which we have spokenin our notice of Hanover Square,* was institutedin 1826, under the auspices of Sir Humphrey England, but which have since been exchanged forlions, as were also their living representatives. Afull account of the Zoological Society and itsliving treasures, in the first few years of theiroccupation of its present abode, will be found inThe Gardens and Menagerie of the ZoologicalSociety delineated, printed by Whittingham at theChiswick Press. During the period which haselapsed since the opening of the gardens a very
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ENTRANCE TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN IN 184O. Davy, Sir Stamford Raffles, and other eminentindividuals, for the advancement of zoology, andthe introduction and exhibition of subjects of theanimal kingdom, alive or in a state of preserva-tion. The collection of animals first establishedhere in 1828 was soon after swelled by the royal collection in the Tower of London, of which wehave spoken in a previous volume,t the remainsof which Avere transferred hither in 1834. Thecollection in the Tower is said to have grown outof a group of three leopards, presented by theEmperor Frederick H., the greatest zoologist ofhis day, to Henry HL, in allusion to the three leopards which then adorned the royal shield of • .Sec Vol. IV., p. 316. t See Vol. II., p. large number of species of mammalia and birdshas been obtained, either by bequest or by pur-chase, detailed lists of which are to be found in thesuccessive annual reports of the society. To thesethere were added, in 1849, a collection of reptiles

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