ELEVEN DEH VANNUAL KEPORT- Or 
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for the maintenance of the Park for 1906, $144,905, has been 
barely sufficient to maintain the Park during the year. The needs 
of the Park during 1907, owing to the completion of the Small 
Deer House, and the opening of the new Entrance Pavilion, and 
to the general increase in the Collections, will tax the resources 
of the Society heavily, as the City has seen fit to decrease the 
amount appropriated by $3,406.25, leaving as maintenance for 
1907 only $141,558.75. Your Committee is not informed of the 
reason of this decrease, but assumes it was due to a lack of ade- 
quate knowledge of the needs of this Society. 
Maintenance of the Aquarium.—The amount appropriated for 
the maintenance of the Aquarium for 1906 was $45,000, which 
has proved sufficient with close economy to maintain that institu- 
tion during the year. The same amount has been provided for 
1907. 
Aquarium Improvement Fund.—During the year the Aquarium 
Improvement Fund was drawn on to the extent of $8,622.89, and 
it now appears probable that we can complete the necessary altera- 
tions to the Aquarium and have a small balance on hand. 
In the Treasurer’s report, detailed statements of the different 
accounts are set forth at length. 
IMPORTANT GIFTS TO THE PARK. 
The most important gifts during the year have been: One hip- 
popotamus, presented by Mr. Samuel Thorne; an African rhinoc- 
eros, presented by Mr. Frederick G. Bourne; five sea-lions, pre- 
sented by Mr. Jacob H. Schiff; one pair of black bears, presented 
by Mr. Emerson McMillin; one pair of black bears, presented 
by Mr. E. H. Harriman; one pair of black bears, presented by 
Dr. A. B. Duel; one pair of jaguar cubs, presented by Mrs. 
Arthur Curtiss James; two manatee and two Florida crocodiles, 
presented by Mr. A. W. Dimock; five buffalo and five elk, pre- 
sented by Mr. T. D. M. Cardeza. A number of smaller gifts have 
also been received during the year, a full list of which will be 
found on page 113 of this report. 
PUBLICATIONS. 
During the year the Annual Report and four quarterly Bulle- 
tins have been published and sent to all the members of this 
Society, together with an edition of the Guide Book. An entire 
new Guide Book, brought fully down to date, is now being pre- 
