TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 69 
The war’s stagnation of the wild animal market led to a 
universal drop in our exhibits. From 1916 to July, 1920, it was 
a steady fight against empty cages and corrals. 
However, thanks to the ripening of seed sown in previous 
years, the year 1920 brought an incoming tide of specimens that 
has filled some of our Zoological Park collection units full to the 
point of actual overflow. On account of the new accessions, the 
collections that we sent to Antwerp, London, Pretoria and 
Johannesburg, in 1919 and 1920, have not been missed. 
Today our Park is well dotted over with the cheerful scarlet 
label which says ‘“‘Recent Accession.” 
During 1920, there were three great arrivals. Curator 
Crandall started the inflow in July, with the collection of about 
500 birds, mammals and reptiles that he worked hard to gather 
in England and on the continent. No sooner was that lot safely 
stowed away and the wreckage cleared than the Chinese Prince 
floated in from South Africa, having on her forward deck Mr. 
A. K. Haagner and an amazing collection of African antelopes, 
small mammals and birds and reptiles both great and small. 
There were ninety-six cages and crates—and the giraffe house 
merely counted “one.” 
And then came the steamer Belle Buckle, directly from 
Sydney, Australia, via the Panama Canal, bearing Ellis 8. Joseph, 
most amazing of zoological collectors, with a collection of Aus- 
tralian birds and mammals of staggering proportions. 
ANIMALS FOR THE FUTURE. 
We are now reaching out into distant lands for certain large 
and highly desirable species of animals, some of which we never 
have possessed, and some that are desired to take the places of 
others that have lived and died in our possession. It is unneces- 
sary to state our precise ambitions, but if some of our cherished 
plans prove successful, the year 1921 will be marked by some 
distinguished arrivals. 
MAINTENANCE OF BUILDINGS AND OTHER INSTALLATIONS. 
The great number of buildings, of proportions great, medium 
and small, of large dens and aviaries, of fenced enclosures, of 
