ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 79 
During the coming year, much engineering work will be re- 
quired in the western yards of the Small-Deer House, the Zebra 
Houses, and the Elephant House yards and walks. 
PHOTOGRAPHY AND PUBLICATIONS. 
Elwin R. Sanborn, Photographer and Asst. Editor. 
Both in variety and importance, the duties of Mr. Sanborn con- 
stantly increase. The extent and scientific value of the Society’s 
collection of more than 3,000 animal photographs is now becoming 
generally known, and its sphere of usefulness is rapidly widening. 
It is no exaggeration to say that the animal photographs made by 
Mr. Sanborn to serve the special purposes of zoology have fixed a 
standard of considerable value in such work. It is a fact, however, 
that even yet there are many persons who hold firmly to the belief 
that inexperience and an ordinary camera can, without any special 
facilities, secure good photographs of wild animals in captivity, 
provided a “permit” can be secured. For many reasons, it is 
a practical impossibility to permit every person who holds this 
belief to test it in the Zoological Park. 
During the year Mr. Sanborn has made-up and put through 
the press the annual report and the regular numbers of THe But- 
LETIN, all illustrated from photographs made by him especially 
for those publications. His photographs of living amphibians 
were especially successful, and marked a great advance beyond 
all previous efforts with animals of that branch. 
The coming year promises to be for Mr. Sanborn’s department 
an unusually busy one. Aside from the regular publications there 
is to be issued the first number of a new publication on the Na- 
tional Collection of Heads and Horns, and a new and extended 
edition of the Guide to the Zoological Park. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 
The Director gratefully acknowledges the special devotion to 
duty of all the officers of the Zoological Park staff during his four 
months’ absence in 1906 on account of illness. It is both a duty 
and a pleasure to assure the members of the Society that under 
Chief Clerk Mitchell, as Acting Director, the affairs of the 
Park were most admirably conducted, and in the administrative 
