THE "ZOO " AND FOOD SHORTAGE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIE,—I yield to no one in my admiration and affection for the "Zoo," to which I have been a regular and frequent visitor for more than forty years. But the huge quantity of food consumed daily in the gardens makes it permissible to doubt whether it is in the national interest to maintain the animals in their present numbers. I recently took the opportunity of inspecting a sample of the hay supplied to the deer and cattle, and was surprised at its high quality. No such hay is issued to Army horses in this country, in my experience. One can only congratulate the Society on its buyer and dimly guess at the price it has to pay. Possibly the Zoological Society may think it worth while to publish the exact facts and figures in regard to food consumption, and inci- dentally, as I sincerely hope it can, dispel any fear of the need for interference with an institution of which Londoners are se
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