Review of Reviews,  4 (1891), 3–12.

The Progress of the World

Anon

Genre:

Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary

Subjects:

Zoological Gardens


    Reports the indictment for manslaughter of two keepers at the Frankfurt zoological gardens who refused to shoot a bear that was mauling a 'poor half-witted servant girl' who had entered the bear-pit, because it 'was much too valuable an animal to be destroyed' (10).



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