ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



591 



CUill'LliTED POLAR DEAR DEX. 



ent at that meeting, only Mr. La Farge and 

 the writer are at the present time in any way 

 connected with the Society. The Board of 

 Managers which was selected contained the 

 names of nine members of the Boone and 

 Crockett Club. Mr. Andrew H. Green was 

 elected President, and Mr. Charles E. White- 

 head and Mr. J. Hampton Robb, \'ice-Presi- 

 dents, and Mr. L. \'. F. Randolph, Treasurer. 

 The writer was elected Secretary, and has held 

 that office continuously ever since. It was at 

 this meeting that Professor Henry Fairfield 

 Osborn's connection with the Society began. 

 and his active interest in the welfare and de- 

 velopment of the Society was the greatest ele- 

 ment of strength that the Society possessed at 

 that time, or which it has since acquired. 



A year was then spent in the consideration 

 of various schemes for carrying out the pur- 

 poses which the Committee of the Boone and 

 Crockett Club had in mind, and which have 

 since been embodied in the Zoological Park. 

 The personnel of the Board of Managers was 

 gradually transformed by the addition, one by 



one. of the men who have since carried on the 

 Society's work and created the Park. Mr. 

 Philip Schuyler, Mr. John L. Cadwalader, Mr. 

 Samuel Thorne, Mr. Charles T. Barney and 

 Mr. W. W. Niles, the sponsor of the original 

 bill incorporating the Society, and an active 

 helper from the beginning, joined the Board of 

 Managers and Executive Committee at this 

 time, and took active parts in the development 

 of the Society and its work. 



The consideration of sites involved a care- 

 ful study of nearly every park area then in ex- 

 istence north of Central Park in ^Manhattan 

 Island and in the Borough of the Bronx. Xot 

 much progress was made along these lines 

 until on April first, 1896, when Mr. William 

 T. Hornaday was engaged as Director of the 

 Zoological Park. Mr. Hornaday had con- 

 ceived, organized and developed the National 

 Zoological Park at Washington, which, at that 

 time, was the only Zoological Park in exist- 

 ence of anything like adequate size. Mr. 

 Hornaday gave his first attention to a careful 

 study of the various parks, and soon brought 



