13 JUNE 1931, Page 14

It is, I think, in accord with our national character

that a number of those who have been concerned with the creation of Whipsnade have a very wide and general knowledge of natural history. They are not just specialists on caged animals. Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell himself, Dr. Vevers, Dr. Hammerton and certainly one of the chief " keepers " know, in various degrees of knowledge, their plants, wild birds and indeed geology as well as their technical zoology. A census has been made of the wild birds frequenting the Zoo. and they include most of the warblers and some great rarities. The discoveries of flint instruments of several ages, palaeolithic and neolithic and later, are astonishing. Some of the axeheads are of great bulk and weight.