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Show WOMAN ZOOLOGIST IS DOING GOOD WORK NEW YORK, Aug. 1. A small size "zoo" has just been presented by a woman In the antipodes' to Dr. W. A Hornaday, director of tho Bronx zoological zoologi-cal gardens. This woman is Mrs. Mary Roberts of 1-lobart. Tasmania, the only woman corresponding member of the Royal Zoological society In the world. She has a private zoological park of her own and a force of collectors who hunt up specimens for her. Sho maintains main-tains a park for charitable purposes and distributes birds nnd animals generously among the different public zoological gardens gar-dens How lavishly she does this Is indicated in-dicated by the present to Dr. Hornaday which arrived on tho steamer Baltic. It consisted of monkeys, tortoises, a snake, parrots, pigeons and other croaturcs. She also sent the head keeper of the gardens at Wellington. N. Z to convey her contribution con-tribution to Dr. Hornaday. |