96 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



The following is a list of photographic prints made during 

 the year : 



For Park Albums 2,100 



For use in Society Publications 653 



For Advertising and Special Purposes 950 



For Files 720 



Total 4,423 



CONTRACT WORK IN GROUND IMPROVEMENTS 



Conducted under the direction of the Park Department of the Borough of the 

 Bronx, Martin Schenck, Chief Engineer. 



Admhiistraticm Building. — This structure was completed in 

 the spring of 1910, but owing to the time required for the manu- 

 facture of its furniture and rugs, it was not ready for occu- 

 pancy until November 20. On that date, however, it was opened 

 to the uses for which it had been designed, with a minimum 

 number of attendants and care-takers. The Heads and Horns 

 Collection thereupon became accessible to all persons entitled to 

 the use of the Administration Building. 



The Director occupied his new offices in the Administration 

 Building on November 15, 1910, thereby affording the Chief Clerk 

 the additional office room for which his department had long stood 

 in urgent need. A code of rules for the use of the new building 

 was prepared by the Director, and approved by the Executive 

 Committee. Inasmuch as it is a physical impossibility to per- 

 mit 1,600,000 annual visitors to have free access to a small office 

 building, it was arranged that admission to the new building 

 should be by card only. At the same time, the millions desire 

 to see the National Collection of Heads and Horns, and the Zoo- 

 logical Society is not only willing, but anxious that they should 

 do so. In view of this fact, and the additional fact that the two 

 picture galleries in the new building are now filled full to over- 

 flowing with the heads and horns, many persons have suggested 

 the obvious alternative that a separate building should be erected 

 for the Heads and Horns Collection, to which all visitors could 

 have free access every day in the year. The importance of the 

 collection, its educational value, its phenomenal growth and the 

 legitimate desire of the public to see it, all point to the only solu- 

 tion that seems possible — a special building on Baird Court for 

 the Heads and Horns. The removal of the Rockefeller Fountain 



