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is given plenty of out-door air, and each day the keepers wheel 

 her about the Park paths in a small carriage. 



An outside room has been constructed for the gorilla, by 

 entirely lining the large outside cage at the northeastern corner 

 of the Primate House, with glass panels. She may go in and 

 out when she likes. The new room is not heated, but during a 

 portion of each day it is visited by sunlight. This playroom will 

 be useful in exercising the other members of the collection of 

 anthropoids. 



The collection of mammals will be particularly affected by 

 the war situation in Europe which has called a complete halt 

 upon the collecting and shipping of wild animals from German 

 sources of supply. There are on exhibition in the Park at the 

 present time a number of old animals that should be replaced 

 during the coming year. Deaths among the faithful veterans 

 of public interest cannot be replaced without new arrangements, 

 and zoological collections in America generally will greatly suf- 

 fer from such conditions unless new lines of supply are promptly 

 established. It will be necessary for us to draw heavily from 

 the South American fauna during the next year, or possibly 

 for several years to come, but the mammals of the American 

 tropics will never suffice to fill the gaps caused by the loss of 

 impressive Old World forms. It is to be hoped England will 

 take immediate steps to supply the American market with Af- 

 rican and oriental animals, great and small. 



One serious accident in our force of keepers is to be recorded 

 for the past year. On the morning of May 9, Keeper Bernard 

 McEnroe was viciously attacked by a cow bison and violently 

 thrown to the ground. Although severely injured, he was able 

 to escape from the corral. Dr. Gilbert J. Van der Smissen, who 

 attends all employees injured while on duty, discovered that 

 one of Keeper McEnroe's lungs had been punctured by one of 

 the bison's horns. Under skilful treatment, however, after sev- 

 several months' disability, the patient quite recovered, and final- 

 ly he returned to work August 3. 



In August we installed a collection of animals at the Yak 

 House. The surrounding yards are now filled, and the animals 

 find shelter in various rooms of this commodious building. The 

 central yards are occupied by an impressive pair of black yaks, 

 to which a vigorous calf was born on August 19, 1914. The 

 southeasterly yards are occupied by a pair of elands, and an 



