Mirror of Literature,  12 (1828), 254–55.

The Zoological Society

Anon

Genre:

Poetry, Drollery, Extract

Publications extracted:

Christmas Box

Subjects:

Zoological Gardens, Zoology, Societies, Palaeontology, Extinction


    Reviews the various animals brought to the Zoological Society Gardens by the Zoological Society, suggesting that the Regent's Park will grow to be a fashionable place with birds and beasts as well as humans. The last stanza reads: 'Would a mammoth could be found / And made across the sea to swim! / But now, alas! upon the ground / The bones alone are left of him: / I fear a hungry mammoth too, / (So monstrous and unquiet he,) / By hunger urged might eat the Zo- / Ological Society!' (255).



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