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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/900980 Title: Gathering of animals; an unconventional history of the New York Zoological Society. Author: William Bridges Publisher: New York, Harper & Row [1974] ISBN/ISSN: 0060104724 9780060104726 OCLC:900980

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Gathering of animals; an unconventional history of the New York Zoological Society.

Author:	William Bridges
Publisher:	New York, Harper & Row [1974]
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : [1st ed.]View all editions and formats
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Subjects	New York Zoological Park -- History. New York Aquarium -- History. New York Zoological Park -- Histoire. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	History
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	William Bridges Find more information about:
ISBN:	0060104724 9780060104726
OCLC Number:	900980
Description:	viii, 518 pages illustrations 23 cm
Contents:	It began with the Boone and Crockett Club -- Enter William Temple Hornaday -- Hard sledding in City Hall -- Ground-breaking began at seven o'clock in the morning -- The final step: getting a staff and animals -- Opening day: November 8, 1899 -- Check your camera at the gate -- Disaster in the ape collection -- The Society takes over the Aquarium -- Autocrat vs. autocrat -- Live times at the Aquarium -- Man in the Zoo -- Good elephants--and Gunda -- The American Bison Society is formed -- Battles for wildlife, the Bronx River Parkway, and the giant redwoods -- William Beebe charts a new course -- Heads, horns, and the chimpanzee that knows everything -- Keeping the animals well -- The Zoological Park is investigated -- Gorillas and other great rarities -- Doctor Hornaday adopts a world war -- Postwar years and the great cobra mystery -- New faces, new ways at the Zoo -- The Townsend era comes to an end at the Aquarium -- Fairfield Osborn breaks the old patterns -- The Zoological Society's role expands -- A future without limits.

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