TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 55 



The organization holds two business meetings a year, — one 

 in December, at which the winter lectures are arranged, and one 

 in March, which plans for the Annual Spring Garden Party at 

 the Park. 



During the past eleven years there have been held at dif- 

 ferent private houses, and at the Colony Club, many lectures. 

 This year, 1919, in February, a lecture was given at the home of 

 Mrs. Vincent Astor, at which Mr. Madison Grant presided, and 

 Ensign Donald B. Mac Millan gave his very interesting lecture 

 on "The Crocker Land Expedition," sent to the North by the 

 American Museum of Natural History and the American Geo- 

 graphical Society. New members were obtained, and interest 

 in the Park aroused, by beautiful new pictures of the Park and 

 its inmates, shown by Curator Ditmars. 



At the first lecture, April 24, 1908, given by Director Horna- 

 day, at the Colony Club, a beloved and former Vice-president of 

 the Society presided — John L. Cadwalader, who, by his rare 

 grace and charm, lives forever in the Society's annals. At this 

 meeting, Mr. Cadwalader outlined the purposes of the Society, 

 and what the Ladies' Auxiliary could accomplish. 



At these lectures, during the past eleven years. Captain 

 Bartlett has described the Rainy-Whitney Expedition ; the cap- 

 ture of, and transporting to the Park of the beautiful Polar Bear, 

 which the children of the Junior Auxiliary presented ; Curator 

 Beebe has described '"The Pheasants" ; "The protection of Game 

 Birds"; "The Abolition of Ladies' Wearing Egrets and Birds of 

 Paradise Feathers, in Co-operation with the Ladies of England 

 and France" ; Curator Ditmars on "Reptiles" ; Mr, James Barnes 

 on "Central Africa" ; and last but one, new pictures of the Park 

 were exhibited, and a lecture on "Life in Yu-Nan, China," was 

 given by Curator Roy Chapman Andrews, of the American Mu- 

 seum, at the residence of Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James. 



As a result of these mid-winter lectures, annual members 

 are secured for the Society. 



An Endowment Fund Committee of the Ladies' Auxiliary 

 has collected and sent to Mr. Pyne, Treasurer of the Society, to 

 add to the Endowment of the Zoological Society, $2,520 of the 

 $5,000 pledged. 



A Junior Auxiliary of children was formed by Miss Char- 

 lotte Barnes, who planned the work, enlisting the interest and 



