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BY an Act of Congress passed on March 2 last year, an “appropriation” was made for the establishment of a Zoological Park in the district of Columbia “for the advancement of science and the instruction and recreation of the people.” The control of the establishment was intrusted to a Commission composed of the Secretary of the Interior, the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
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New Zoological Park at Washington. Nature 42, 63–64 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042063a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/042063a0