18 APRIL 1931, Page 13

It may be allowable to express disappointment that the ideal

of preparing enclosures virtually invisible has not yet been attained. There are hollows in the chalk and ready- made screens which suggest architectural triumphs in the future. Whipsnade, after all, is very young ; and it is wholly astonishing that work of such proportions has been carried through so quickly. Doubtless, the outer structure has had to take precedence of the internal decoration. Even killing off the rabbits was a Herculean task.