48 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



SPECIAL MAINTENANCE ACCOUNT. 



This is a fund subscribed by the Managers of the Society 

 to provide for the deficit in the City's appropriation for 1919 

 for Park and Aquarium, which is estimated at $18,000. The 

 subscriptions to this fund amount to $11,200. 



The Board of Managers have voted that any subscription 

 made for maintenance shall be for the year 1919 only, and that 

 such action on the part of the Board shall not be considered a 

 precedent for imposing upon the Managers of the Society any 

 obligation to supply any portion of the maintenance for the Park 

 or the Aquarium in the future. 



The terms of the contract between the City and the Society 

 state very distinctly that the City "shall annually provide the 

 necessary funds for the maintenance and care of the Zoological 

 Gardens, its buildings, enclosures and other improvements made 

 from time to time therein and the animals and collections of said 

 Society." This is part of the consideration for the Society throw- 

 ing open its collection to the public free of charge on five days of 

 the week. 



The City in addition is spared the expense of maintaining 

 a park of 264 acres, which is acknowledged to have been kept 

 up by the Society in a better condition than any similar grounds 

 in the City. 



The total cost to the City for the upkeep of the Park and 

 the Aquarium for the year 1918 was less than eight cents for 

 each visitor. 



THE PHEASANT MONOGRAPH. 



The first volume of "A Monograph of the Pheasants" ap- 

 peared in the autumn of 1918. The remaining volumes are com- 

 plete so far as to text, and the delay in their appearance is occa- 

 sioned by the fact that some of the plates for the illustrations 

 of the last volumes are in storage in Vienna. So far as we know, 

 they are safe, but cannot be withdrawn until conditions become 

 more settled. 



This monograph is in four volumes, costing $62.50 each, 

 but the subscription is for the entire set and each volume is paid 

 for as delivered. 



