82 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The following is a statement of the photographic prints made 

 during the year 1907 : 



For index albums and files 3-7^9 



For magazines and newspapers 773 



For miscellaneous collections 1,066 



For publications of the Society 135 



5.763 



A stereopticon was purchased for the lectures to pupils of the 

 public schools, and operated by Mr. Hedrich. 



An exhibit was made at the Sportsman's Show, and operated. 



A report on the transfer of the gift bison herd to Oklahoma, 

 with illustrations, was prepared by Mr. Sanborn, and published in 

 Bulletin No. 28. 



In conclusion, it is reasonably certain that the work of Mr. 

 Sanborn and his assistant, Mr. Hedrich, never will grow any 

 less, but probably will steadily increase from year to year. 



MAINTENANCE. 



H. W. Merkel, Chief Constructor; E. H. Cos'tain, Assistant Forester 

 and Captain-of-the-Watch. 



Through strenuous effort, the doing of extra duty by a great 

 many men, the employment of several boys where men were 

 needed, and finally the well-nigh complete exhaustion of all 

 visible food and fuel supplies at the end of the year, we suc- 

 ceeded in maintaining the Zoological Park without the deficit that 

 at one time was regarded as almost inevitable. Nevertheless, the 

 great shortage in December, 1907, involved unusually heavy 

 expenditures during January, 1908. 



Thanks to the increase in our annual maintenance fund, which 

 was granted by the Mayor and the Board of Estimate for 1908, 

 we will be enabled to carry the Park through the present year 

 more becomingly, and with less of a struggle, than last year. 

 The increase granted will be wholly consumed by the new men, 

 animal food and fuel rendered necessary by the new buildings 

 completed last year and to be completed in 1908. 



The general course of maintenance work conformed to the lines 

 now well established. The most important new items of increase 

 are: the Small-Deer House, (2 men), the Boston Road and 

 Bronxdale entrances, (2 men), the Public Comfort Station on the 

 Boston Road, (1908, 2 attendants), the Pelham Avenue "Con- 



