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Owing to an unfortunate shortage of funds for game protec- 

 tion measures, it was impossible to continue Mr. .Shield's services 

 as the Society's agent after May i, 1907. 



OBITUARY. 



The death of Mr. Charles T. Barney, long Chairman of this 

 Committee, was a great loss to the Society and to the individual 

 members of this Committee. The Committee took immediate 

 action in the matter, and the obituary notice passed by them at 

 the time of Mr. Barney's death is set forth in full below. To 

 honor Mr. Barney still further, his son, Mr. James W. Barney, 

 was elected to take his place on the Board of Managers. 



During the year the Society lost two of its patrons, Mr. Henry 

 O. Havemeyer and Air. D. Willis James, and also lost, through 

 death, the services of one of its architects, Mr. George L. Heins, 

 to whose skill the architecture in the Zoological Park is much 

 indebted, and to whose interest in the Society this Committee 

 desires to make public record. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



The Committee desires to express its appreciation of the con- 

 tinued devotion to the interests of the Society of the Director 

 of the Zoological Park, and of the Director of the Aquarium. 

 The staffs of both the Park and the Aquarium have been loyal 

 and devoted to their work, and the Committee desires to take 

 this opportunity to express its sense of appreciation. The Com- 

 mittee desires also to acknowledge the courtesy and interest shown 

 by the Mayor, Hon. George B. McClellan, and by the Comp- 

 troller, Hon. Herman A. Metz, and to the President of the Park 

 Board. The members of the Park Department for the Borough 

 of the Bronx have been uniformly helpful and friendly toward 

 the work at the Park, and special acknowledgement is here made 

 to Commissioner Joseph I. Berry, to Mr. Martin Schenck, Chief 

 Engineer ; Mr. William P. Hennessy, Assistant Engineer, and 

 Mr. G. K. Ackermann, Chief Clerk, and this Society, desires to 

 record its appreciation of their co-operation. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



Henry Fairfield Osborn, Chairman, 

 Madison Grant, William White Niles, 



John S. Barnes, Samuel Thorne, 



Percy R. Pyne, Levi P. Morton, ex officio. 



January i, 1908. 



