TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT ia 
QUALITY OF SERVICE 
The services rendered by the members of the Zoological 
Park force continue to reveal a high order of merit. The giving 
of an order is in itself an assurance that the work called for will 
be promptly, cheerfully and skilfully performed. Here the 
standard of service is such that incompetents who enter soon 
drop out, or are dropped. We have lost quite a number of ex- 
cellent employees through conditions beyond our control, the 
most notable for 1920 being Mrs. Ethel Sutliffe Meyer and Mrs. 
Clara Reiss Newman. 
After January 1, 1921, each member of our uniformed force 
who has served more than five years will wear a gold bar chevron 
for each five years of service in the Zoological Park. 
SPECIAL POLICE FOR PARKS. 
In the winter of 1920 Park Commissioner Joseph P. Hen- 
nessy, of the Bronx, caused to be drafted, and with the full 
approval of the Park Board and Police Commissioner Enright, 
introduced in the legislature at Albany a bill to provide for 
special park police. On account of the pressure of other matters, 
this highly desirable and important measure was not successfully 
pressed to a conclusion; but it is to be hoped that in the near 
future the bill can be passed. The rapidly increasing population 
of New York City is also rapidly increasing in disorderly tenden- 
cies in public parks, and a far better system of park protection 
now has become imperatively necessary. 
DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALS. 
W. T. HorNapay, Curator; R. L. Ditmars, Assistant Curator; 
JOHN TOOMEY, Head Keeper. 
Never since the opening of the Park has the Department of 
Mammals passed a more active or a more interesting year. These 
activities were due to arrivals and departures. The receipt of 
three large collections from abroad already has been noted in this 
report. The activities connected therewith were supplemented 
by the crating and shipping of a large collection of duplicate 
animals and animals specially purchased for exportation to the 
