ABSTRACT
London Zoo, as it became known, had at the time the biggest collection of animals in the world and the society vowed to be driven by species conservation in this endeavour. The society later also opened Whipsnade as the world’s first safari park. The different races of animals employed in social life, for labour, clothing, food, etc., are the direct objects of its attention; their improvement, the manner in which their number may be increased, the application of their produce, and its connection with various departments of industry and manufactures, are of the utmost importance to Man, in every stage of his existence. The inconveniences of migration may be, in certain cases, prevented, and the wildest animals, when supplied abundantly with food, may lose the instinct of locomotion, and their offspring acquire new habits; and it is known that a breed, fairly domesticated, is with difficulty brought back to its original state.
