86 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



It is both a duty and a pleasure to acknowledge once more the 

 cordial and helpful cooperation of the chief officers of the Park 

 Department for Bronx Borough in all the affairs of the Zoological 

 Park in which it was possible for them to render assistance. The 

 many important matters to be acted upon by the Park Commis- 

 sioner, by Chief-Engineer Schenck, Assistant-Engineer Hennessy, 

 and Chief Clerk Ackerman always received the most prompt and 

 careful attention, and by those officers the interests of the Zoolog- 

 ical Park were promoted to the utmost extent. 



To each of the Zoological Park officers, and to the more than 

 one hundred other members of the Zoological Park force, the 

 director feels deeply iridebted for the interest which they have 

 taken in their individual work, and in promoting the interest of 

 the Park as a whole. Any success which thus far has been 

 attained in meeting the expectations of the Zoological Society, 

 the Officers of the City of New York, and the general public has 

 been due to the interest which each officer has manifested in his 

 work, and the spirit of right-doing which he has inspired in those 

 under him. Although the discipline of the force as a whole 

 must necessarily be strict in order to attain a high degree of 

 general excellence, everything that it is possible to give in return 

 for faithful services is freely offered. 



The merit system is rigidly maintained, and, as it stands to-day, 

 the Zoological Park force is the result of the two great natural 

 laws of special selection and the survival of the fittest. 



Respectfully submitted, 



William T. Hornaday, 



Director. 

 January i, 1906. 



