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work has gone on actively during the winter. The surplus 

 stone from excavations about the public conservatories will 

 also be broken up during the winter and hauled to this part 

 of the grounds. The amount of surplus stone obtained in 

 this way will be sufficient to build nearly all the roads and 

 paths planned for the region north of the museum. It was 

 found practicable during the fall to haul stone in one direc- 

 tion and bring topsoil in the other, by the same teams, thus 

 reducing the cost of moving material to a minimum, and 

 similar conditions can be taken advantage of for a time during 

 the next spring. 



Grading was also commenced immediately behind the 

 museum building for the purpose of improving that area, 

 the earth being used for filling and the stone for paths. 

 This work will also improve the surface drainage of the land 

 immediately behind the museum building by causing the 

 rain water to flow off rapidly instead of soaking into the 

 ground and giving us trouble in the basement after heavy 

 storms. 



Roads and Paths. 



The contract of the Park Department with John B. Devlin, 

 awarded December n, 1900, and described in my last annual 

 report, providing for the building of driveways and paths 

 around the public conservatories, is not yet quite completed ; 

 there still remains considerable final surfacing on portions of 

 both the roads and the paths. The time-allowance for this 

 contract has long since expired, and there is no reason why 

 the time-penalty should not be enforced. With the exception 

 of the surfacing work mentioned, it is essentially finished, and 

 should be made good early in the spring. 



The new driveway extending from a point between the 

 museum building and the herbaceous grounds, east and south 

 through the woods to the south line of the Garden reservation, 

 was completed during the autumn, and work in continuing it 

 from this point south to Pelham Avenue, where it ends op- 

 posite one of the entrances to the Zoological Park, was com- 

 menced by the Park Department in the autumn and will 



