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but also, by careful handling, to add a new building to the Park 

 every other year. As the Park increases in popularity the mem- 

 bership lists will undoubtedly increase. All our members are 

 invited to co-operate with the Executive Committee by enlisting 

 interest and obtaining new members. Our present membership 

 numbers over 750. The most important and successful of the 

 foreign societies are supported by the membership of several 

 thousand persons. For example, the Zoological Society of Lon- 

 don contains 3,000 members, those of Antwerp and Amsterdam 

 about 5,000 members. As the visits of the public to the Park 

 increase, the right of free admission on pay days will be increas- 

 ingly attractive. Furthermore, the Society, when relieved of the 

 present pressing necessity of establishing the Park, will be able 

 to do more for its members in the way of publications, distribu- 

 tion of photographs, attractive public lectures, art exhibitions, 

 and similar advantages. 



ARTISTIC AND SCIENTIFIC TREATMENT OF THE PARK. 



Altogether, $20,693.38 has been expended up to the present 

 time upon plans. The Committee has at all times been of the 

 opinion that the success of the Zoological Park would depend as 

 largely upon its aesthetic attractions as upon its popular exhibi- 

 tion of animals ; and we have, therefore, continued to study and 

 develop the larger and smaller features of the general design, 

 termed " The Final Plan," which was approved by the Park De- 

 partment and by the Mayor in 1897. 



None of the general features of this plan have been or will be 

 departed from. It has been found necessary to change the loca- 

 tion of one building only — that is, the workshops, originally 

 placed on the east side of the Elephant Court. This change was 

 made upon the urgent advice of Warren H. Manning, a well- 

 known Boston landscape architect, who gave several months' 

 study to the general plan, but was obliged through pressure of 

 other work to resign his connection with the Zoological Park. 

 The new location of the workshops is a much wiser one, and, 

 being in the administrative centre of tlie Park, it will reduce the 

 cost of Park service to a minimum. No other material changes 

 in the location of buildings appeared to be necessary. 



Mr. Manning, who was engaged to make detailed studies for 



