1897] PROPOSED ZOOLOGICAL PARK OF NEW YORK 39 
water and shelter, and such cliff-dwellers as the mountain-sheep 
will be located on rugged masses of natural rock. It is proposed 
that the buffalo herd shall contain about twenty-five carefully 
selected animals, living in a twenty-acre range, and be in every 
way worthy to represent this important species.” 
In conclusion, we are sure that all persons interested in Natural 
History will wish full success to the Zoological Society of New 
York, and will hope that the sum necessarily required to start such 
a large undertaking may be speedily raised. From the well-known 
munificence of the wealthy Americans in all matters of this sort it 
cannot be doubted that these expectations will be abundantly 
realised. P. L. SCLATER. 
