The View From the Castle: How our dwindling wilderness inspired Secretary Langley to start a zoo-- and how the elephants came, two by two
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PrintSmithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley describes how, distraught over the imminent closing of the Western frontier, the popular sentiment arose in 19th century America to conserve and preserve. Former Smithsonian Secretary, Samuel Pierpont Langley, incorporated conservation and preservation into the Smithsonian with the opening of the National Zoological Park in 1890. Ripley relates an anecdote about moving two elephants to the new site of the zoo.
Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography
Smithsonian Vol. 1, no. 4 (Journal)
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
July 1970
Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
pp. 65