Documents for the history of the oldest Brazilian zoological park: the Goeldi museum zoobotanical park

The paper contextualizes the creation of the Goeldi Museum Zoobotanical Park, in Belém, State of Pará, in 1895, considered the oldest zoo in Brazil. It features two rare historical sources on the Park, a 1897 article by the German zoologist Hermann Meerwarth (1870-1943), Scientific Assistant of Zool...

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Main Authors: José de Sousa e Silva Junior, Nelson Sanjad, David Conway Oren, Horácio Higuchi, Marinus Steven Hoogmoed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi 2012-04-01
Series:Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-81222012000100013&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=pt