Rory Browne will give an illustrated talk beginning with the early attempts to found a zoological garden in Boston and the eventual successful establishment of the zoo in Franklin Park.
Dr. Browne will review the zoo’s hundred-year history from its founding in 1912-1913 to its present renaissance in the context of the history of Boston and the world-wide development of zoos.
Rory Browne has taught history at Oxford, Paris (Nanterre), Yale, Harvard, and Boston College. He has offered courses on the history of zoos and of human-animal relations at Harvard and Boston College, and has lectured and broadcast widely on these topics in America and overseas.
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Although London-born, he has made his home in Massachusetts for the past twenty years and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Zoo New England, the nonprofit that runs the Franklin Park and Stone Zoos.
Event info and photo provided by the Boston Public Library.
