TY - JOUR
AU - Jones, Robert W.
AB - ‘The Sight of Creatures Strange to our Clime’: London Zoo and the consumption of the exotic Robert W. Jones This essay is concerned with the mechanics, the intended pleasures and exhibitionary technologies of an institution.’ The institution in ques- tion is Regent’s Park Zoo from the time of its opening to the general public in the early 1840s to the sale of its most famous exhibit, Jumbo the elephant, forty years later. Although the Zoo had been originally opened in 1829, access had been restricted to Fellows of the Zoological Society and their friends; by the mid-1830s the more respectable mem- bers of the middle classes were also granted access.* During these early years a stress was placed on science and research rather than on spectacle. The zoological gardens, as the live exhibiting centre of the Zoological Society of London, was founded on the basis of several distinct scientific and educational intentioms Amongst these was the desire to introduce and domesticate foreign breeds (a farm was estab- lished at Kingston for this purpose), to further comparative anatomy, and only latterly to display the fauna of other lands to the English p~blic.~ Notwithstanding the pious aims of science and agriculture, 
TI - ‘The Sight of Creatures Strange to our Clime’: London Zoo and the consumption of the exotic
JF - Journal of Victorian Culture
DO - 10.1080/13555509709505936
DA - 1997-03-01
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SP - 1
EP - 26
VL - 2
IS - 1
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