Popular Official Guide to the New York Zoological Park 1

Popular Official Guide to the New York Zoological Park 1

Popular Official Guide to the New York Zoological Park (September 1915)

Thirteenth Edition

Author: William T. Hornaday

 

Administration Bldg., 8 D 4

Alaskan House, 32 H 3

Alligator Pool, 36 H 4

Antelope House, 50 J 3

Bear Dens, 37 H 5

Beaver Pond, 29 G 5

Biological Laboratory, 28 A G 4

Bird House, Aquatic, 5 D 2

Bird House, Large, 7 D 3

Bison, 51 J 5

Boat House, 54 M 6

Buffalo Herd, 52 J 6

Burrowing Animals, 42 I 3

Cage, Flying, 4 C 3

Camel House, 39 I 2

Deer House, Small, 49 I 2

Deer, American, 30 H 2

Deer, Asiatic, 1 C-D 2

Deer, Axis and Sika, 2 C 2

Deer, Fallow, 53 K 4

Deer, Red, 10 D 2

Duck Aviary, 3 C 3

Eagle and Vulture Aviary, 11 E 2

Elephant House, 20 F 3

Elk Range, 21 G 2

Feed Barn, 27 G 3

Flying Cage, 4 C 3

Fountain, Rockefeller, 13 D 4

Fountains, Drinking, D 2, H 2, M 7

Fox Dens, 23 G 2

Lion House, 15 E 3

Llama House, 38 I 2

Lydig Arch, 47 I 5

Mammal House, Small, 35 H 3

Mountain Sheep Hill, 44 I 4

Musk Oxen, 48 I 2

Nursery, 18 E 9

Ostrich House, 43 I 3

Otter Pools, 31 H 2

Pavilion, Shelter, 26 G 3

Pheasant Aviary, 40 I 2

Polar Bear Den, 37 H 5

Prairie Dogs, 41 I 3

Primate House, 17 E 4

Puma and Lynx House, 33 A H 3

Raccoon’s Tree, 44 A I 5

Reptile House, 34 H 4

Restaurant, 46 I 5

Riding Animals, 6 D 3

Rocking Stone, 45 I 5

Sea Lion Pool, 12 D 3

Service Bldg., 28 H 4

Soda Fount’s. *D 2, G 3, H 4

Subway Station O 6

Toilets, W. M., C 3, E 3, G 3, I 5, L 6, M 8

Tortoise Yards H 4

Totem Pole, 32 H 3

Turkeys, Wild, 33 H 3

Wolf Dens, 22 G 3

Yak House, 55 K 4

Zebra Houses, 14 E 2

 

[Illustration: PENINSULA BEAR: IVAN]

 

 

 

 

POPULAR OFFICIAL GUIDE

TO THE

New York Zoological Park

 

 

By WILLIAM T. HORNADAY, Sc.D.

Director and General Curator

 

ILLUSTRATED BY ELWIN R. SANBORN

 

[Illustration: New York Zoological Society]

 

GORILLA EDITION

 

WITH MAPS, PLANS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

 

THIRTEENTH EDITION—SEPTEMBER, 1915

 

 

PUBLISHED BY THE

NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

11 WALL STREET, NEW YORK

 

Only Authorized Guide Price 25 Cents

COMPLETELY REVISED AND EXTENDED

 

1st Edition, October, 1899— 5000

2d “ May, 1900— 5000

3d “ December, 1900— 5000

4th “ October, 1901— 3000

5th “ June, 1902— 10000

6th “ “ 1903— 10000

7th “ “ 1904— 15000

8th “ “ 1906— 7000

9th “ “ 1907— 30000

10th “ October, 1909— 30000

11th “ June, 1911— 30000

12th “ “ 1913— 40000

13th “ September, 1915— 20000

 

Copyright, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1911,

1913 and 1915.

NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

 

 

 

 

PREFACE

 

 

The publication of this revised and extended edition of the Guide to the

Zoological Park is necessary in order to bring our most important

collections down to date. With the completion of the Zebra House and

Eagle Aviary, we are now able to offer a Guide Book to the Zoological

Park as practically finished.

 

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 moment 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. From 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. Our wild creatures are not immortal;

and, like human beings, they live out their allotted lives and pass

away. The great majority do not perpetuate themselves in captivity, and

the depleted ranks must be filled by new gifts and new purchases. Gifts