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the children, and more particularly to prepare the members of 

 the Auxiliary to become members of the Zoological Society 

 when they shall have attained the full age. Two meetings are 

 held each year ; one a lecture, and the second a gathering at the 

 Park when the members visit the animals. They have paid for 

 a bear cub at present on exhibition at the Park, and known as 

 Junior. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



The relations with all departments and officials of the City's 

 government, and especially with the Park Department, have 

 continued to be most cordial, and the Committee is greatly in- 

 debted to these officials, as well as the members of the Board of 

 Estimate and Apportionment, for their support and co-opera- 

 tion during the past year. 



The Directors of the Park and the Aquarium, and their 

 respective staffs, have been most zealous and energetic in the 

 performance of their duties, and the Society enters upon this 

 new year with the assurance of an ever-increasing sphere of 

 activity and usefulness. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Madison Grant, Chairman. 



Percy R. Pyne, Levi P. Morton, 



Samuel Thorne, Frank K. Sturgis, 



William White Niles, Lispenard Stewart, 



Wm. Pierson Hamilton, Henry Fairfield Osborn, 



Ex-Officio. 



