EDITOR’S NOTE
Zoological Gardens and. Zoological Parks, where various representatives of the faunal kingdom are placed on public view, extend considerable possibilities for conducting scientific research in studying different species of the animal world. In particular, the Zoolo
gical Gardens in Moscow has a rich collection of both indigenous and foreign fauna, forming an exceptionally fruitful field for such studies.
Practically no scientific research was conducted in the Moscow Zoo before the October Socialist Revolution and it was not until 1923 that such activities began to develop, when, within the Zoo, a Laboratory of Experimental Biology was organised, During the existence of this laboratory under the auspices of the Zoo, and until it was transferred to the jurisdiction of a different institution, six volumes of its transactions had been published, chiefly cover
ing work on the mechanism of development, conducted mainly through laboratory experiments on the scanty material available in the Zoo.
Whereas, perhaps the activities of this laboratory did not fully respond to the scientific and actual needs of the Zoo, and the work therein proceeded in a manner isolated from the everyday life of the Zoological Gardens, the available material maybe being inadequately utilised, with the removal of the laboratory from the jurisdiction of the Zoo, systematic scientific work in the Moscow Zoo almost came to a complete standstill. Proper organisation of scien
tific research work in the Moscow Zoo was undertaken between 1937 and 1939, and only after its personnel of scientific collaborators had been renovated and replenished.
Zoological Gardens and. Zoological Parks, where various representatives of the faunal kingdom are placed on public view, extend considerable possibilities for conducting scientific research in studying different species of the animal world. In particular, the Zoolo
gical Gardens in Moscow has a rich collection of both indigenous and foreign fauna, forming an exceptionally fruitful field for such studies.
Practically no scientific research was conducted in the Moscow Zoo before the October Socialist Revolution and it was not until 1923 that such activities began to develop, when, within the Zoo, a Laboratory of Experimental Biology was organised, During the existence of this laboratory under the auspices of the Zoo, and until it was transferred to the jurisdiction of a different institution, six volumes of its transactions had been published, chiefly cover
ing work on the mechanism of development, conducted mainly through laboratory experiments on the scanty material available in the Zoo.
Whereas, perhaps the activities of this laboratory did not fully respond to the scientific and actual needs of the Zoo, and the work therein proceeded in a manner isolated from the everyday life of the Zoological Gardens, the available material maybe being inadequately utilised, with the removal of the laboratory from the jurisdiction of the Zoo, systematic scientific work in the Moscow Zoo almost came to a complete standstill. Proper organisation of scien
tific research work in the Moscow Zoo was undertaken between 1937 and 1939, and only after its personnel of scientific collaborators had been renovated and replenished.