NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 57 



The spring meeting of the Board of Managers was held in 

 the Administration Building in the Zoological Park on Thurs- 

 day, May 21, 1914. General reports were received from the 

 Executive Committee, the Treasurer and the Directors of the 

 Park and the Aquarium. It was decided to hold this meeting 

 hereafter on the first Thursday of June at 2 o'clock P. M., and 

 that it be preceded by luncheon at the Park. 



At a meeting of your committee held on October 1, 1914, 

 Mr. Henry M. Tilford was elected a member of the Board of 

 Managers, Class of 1915, to fill the vacancy caused by the death 

 of the late John L. Cadwalader. 



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 your 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-operation 

 during the past year. 



The Directors of the Park and the Aquarium, and their re- 

 spective 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, Frank K. Sturgis, 



Samuel Thorne, Lispenard Stewart, 



William White Niles, Watson B. Dickerman, 



Wm. Pierson Hamilton, Henry Fairfield Osborn, 



Ex-Officio. 



