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walls of the wings for the New Aquarium Building in Bat- 
tery Park, under the jurisdiction of the Department of 
Parks, Boroughs of Manhattan and Richmond, and that 
when authority therefor shall have been obtained from the 
Board of Aldermen, the Comptroller be, and is hereby au- 
thorized to issue said corporate stock of the City of New 
York in the manner provided by Section 169 of the Greater 
New York Charter, the proceeds thereof to the amount of 
the par value of the stock to be applied to the purposes 
aforesaid. 
The above resolution was adopted by the Board of Aldermen 
on July 31, 1911, and took effect September 19, 1911. No por- 
tion of this has, as yet, been expended. 
A request for $600,000 will be made during the coming 
spring to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, which can 
be added to the $200,000 already in hand, and used to build the 
foundations and a portion of the new building. 
The plans are being prepared by the architect, Mr. J. Stew- 
art Barney, and your Committee propose to associate with Mr. 
Barney as Engineer, Mr. William Barclay Parsons, who will 
have charge of the construction of the building. 
IMPORTANT GIFTS TO THE PARK. 
During the year several valuable gifts were received, in- 
cluding a Cape hunting dog, three leopards, spotted hyena, two 
lion cubs and several monkeys received from Mr. Paul J. Rainey. 
Mr. Emerson McMillin presented an oil painting entitled, An Old 
Prospector, and a copy of the original edition of Wilson’s Amer- 
ican Ornithology. A valuable collection of maps was received 
from Mr. C. William Beebe, and two mule deer were donated by 
Col. Anthony R. Kuser. 
ANIMAL COLLECTIONS. 
During the year the collection of mammals was strength- 
ened by the arrival of a number of particularly rare and inter- 
esting forms. The most notable were a gorilla, a spectacled bear 
from Ecuador, an Andean black bear, a Cape hunting dog, two 
wombats, two snow leopards, a spotted hyena and a blessbok. 
The collection of birds received a great number of species new 
to the Park, and our list of species on exhibition made a great 
advance. At this time it is probable that the total number of 
species on exhibition is equal to the greatest number exhibited 
