Abstract
THE Zoological Society of London has begun a venture which rounds off its benefactions to the nation. For well over a century its collections have amused and instructed the general public, it has spent vast sums upon the publication of scientific papers for the learned, and now in a popular monthly magazine it proposes to bring the interest of the zoo to those who cannot visit the enclosures, and generally to diffuse a knowledge of animals and their ways. Britain has lagged far behind the United States in the production of high-class popular magazines of science: we know nothing that can compare with Natural History, the journal of the American Museum of Natural History. But Zoo, in the quality of its text and in the interest and character of its illustrations, comes near to the American standard, and from the popular view it has gone one better, in leaving the stricter path of knowledge and introducing lighter stories of wild life. Many of the articles in the first number are by well-known scientific workers, and it is a pleasure to see that they possess the art of driving the pen so that the plain man can read.
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Zoo A New Periodical. Nature 137, 940 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137940b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137940b0