How Animals Came to the Zoo in 1987

Title : How Animals Came to the Zoo in 1987  
Author : CJ Cornish
Source : Windsor Magazine
Year Published : 1898
Page Count : 10
Image Count : 6
Word Count : 4,090
File Size in MB : 5.1
File Type : PDF

"From the early days of the Society, Royalty has always taken an interest in its collections. In 1831 the King became Patron, and presented the whole of the Royal menagerie at Windsor to the Society. It consisted mainly of such animals as could be kept at the Home Farm at Windsor, Wapiti deer, sambnr, gnus, nhlghaus, emus, zebras — including the now rare mountain zebra — wild boars and kangaroos. Later in the year he also presented the whole of the menagerie kept at the Tower. This enabled the committee to help to stock the Dublin Gardens then about to be formed.

It seems a paradox to say that the finest collection ever destined for the Zoo was lost before the Society was founded. It is, however, a fact. The Zoological Society was founded in 1826, and the person most active in its promotion was that great and good Englishman, Sir Stamford Raffles. Sir Humphry Davy and other eminent men had their share in the movement, but Sir Stamford Baffles’ astonishing energy, his love for natural history, and his personal..."