Circus Offers Animals to NZP
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PrintMr. James E. Cooper, proprietor of the Adam Forepaugh Circus, who in 1891 presented Dunk the Asian elephant to the National Zoological Park, offers a temporary deposit of 73 animals without charge. The National Zoo accepts the animals, with the stipulation that all offspring become the property of the United States.
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Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
October, 1893