88 ANNUAL EEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1931 



Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture, the 

 Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, the United States 

 Botanic Garden. Walter Eeed Hospital, and San Diego Zoo. 



ENDOWMENTS 



The first endowments ever received by the Zoo were two given 

 during the fiscal year 1931. The Frances Brinckle Zerbee Memorial 

 Fund of $1,000 was given to the Smithsonian Institution b}'^ Maj. 

 Leigh Zerbee, her husband, for the use of the National Zoological 

 Park to maintain stock in aquariums. Mrs. Zerbee was particularly 

 interested in fishes and other small aquatic forms and it was in recog- 

 nition of her keen interest in such matters that Major Zerbee estab- 

 lished this memorial fund. A bronze tablet has been placed in thc^ 

 reptile house over the aquaria in which this stock is to be maintained. 



William S. Barstow of Great Neck, Long Island, presented $1,000 

 as an endowment in the name of his son, Frederic D. Barstow. 

 This money has been invested and the income from it will be 

 used to keep a cage in the zoo stocked with some interesting small 

 mammal. Frederic D. Barstow, who died soon after this fund 

 was established, was a keen enthusiast regarding birds and mammals 

 and had made several trips to the Tropics for the purpose of 

 collecting them. 



The only previous contribution to the Zoo at all similar in charac- 

 ter was the construction of the Beatrice Henderson cage for birds. 

 This cage was built during the summer of 1912 by the late John B. 

 Henderson, jr. It is about 24 by 40 by 26 feet, situated near the 

 great flight cage, and now houses cockatoos of various kinds. 



DONORS AND THEHR GIPTS 



Thomas D. Bacon, Washington, D. C, wood chuck. 



Dr. Paul Bartsch, Washin.uton, D. C., 21 Bahama iguanas, 119 hermit crabs, 

 2 common iguanas, 4 marine turtles. 



R. L. Bassett, Glenn Dale, Md., barred owl. 



Dr. B. L. Beaines, Richmond, Va., great horned owl. 



H. W. Belt, Hyattsville, Md., king snake. 



J. E. Benedict, jr., N. C, 2 marbled salamanders. 



Foster IT. Benjamin, Orlando, Fla., through United States Department of 

 Agriculture, bull snake, 2 worm lizards, garter snake, pine snake, diamond- 

 back rattlesnake, 2 hog-nosed snakes, water moccasin, ground rattlesnake, 

 water snake, green snake, 2 indigo snakes, pigmy rattlesnake, 4 soft-shell 

 turtles, 5 gopher tortoises, salamander, 4 alligators, bat, 3 frogs, 7 Florida 

 box tortoises, painted turtle, Florida snapping turtle, O.sceola snapping 

 turtle, 2 fence lizards, 14 Florida cooters, musk turtle. 



Jim Black, I'iue Castle, Fla., 12 Florida cooters, 2 soft-shell turtles. 



S. Bolay, New Orleans, La., 2 Texas king snakes. 



Miss Isabelle Borders, Okmulgee, Okla., scarlet milk snake. 



J. S. C. Boswell, Alexandria, Va., painted turtle, spotted turtle, 2 mole snakea 



