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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 33, 8 August 1921, Page 2

Over ' 100,000 volume^ and almO6t aa many pamphlets, etc., hive been collected by the French Government, and a building will be erected having five miles of shelving. * Tho future historian will probably die in Hie first mile, remarks tho Scientific American. The coyection of manuscripts, photographs, and war records is appalling as to numbers, and there seems to bo no limit to.the-friffeuof collectors. ■

The Chinese were always to the forefront in ancient days when anything scientific is concerned. They started a ''Zoo" in 11 .8.0., only, they Called Jit an "Intelligence Park." " The ancient Greeks and Romans, says .'Scientific American, were fond of seeing strange animals, but they. do not appear to have collections as such, the gladiators getting most of them. The modern zoological gardens had their origin during the middle agee,' when feudal magnates and royal parsons had menageries. In tho middle of the fifteenth century there wore zoological garden.' aviaries, and fish-ponds in Mexico. \