TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 55 
During the year, the following items of work have been 
done and charged against this Fund: New Blackbirds’ cage 
erected; Reptile House roof repaired; new drainage for Elephant 
House basement; new boiler for Lion House; upper bear dens 
repaired; sixteen new Parrot Cages erected; Eagles’ Aviary re- 
paired; cage floors of Mammal House repaired, and extensive 
walk repairs. 
CARNEGIE PENSION FUND. 
Important and valuable as this Fund is to the Society as a 
safeguard and protection to its employees, who have long ren- 
dered valuable service at inadequate salaries, it is nevertheless 
a source of continuous drain upon the Income Account, because 
it requires an annual contribution of $3,665. 
The Carnegie Foundation appears to be unwilling to assist 
the Society in this matter, although the Fund was established 
by the late Andrew Carnegie and bears his name. 
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
The Medical Research Department under Dr. George S. 
Huntington has continued to make use of the material received 
from our collections. The skins and skeletons were turned over 
to the American Museum of Natural History, so that it now is 
safe to say that there is an increasing scientific use made of the 
material available at the Park. 
If the Society had the funds, a Biological Laboratory 
could be constructed at the Park and many valuable observa- 
tions could be made upon the living collections and upon the 
soft parts of their anatomies when they die. 
CONSERVATION. 
The most serious matter of conservation that has engaged 
the attention of the Society during the year has been the pro- 
tection of National Parks. There has been powerful effort made 
to exploit the National Parks for water power and irrigation. 
The Smith Bill, which would have destroyed the south- 
western corner of Yellowstone Park, which is almost the last 
stand of the moose in the West, was defeated with difficulty. 
