114 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
We believe that the records of the past year’s work have shown 
the medical work of the Park to be a financial success, to put it 
on no higher plane, and it does not seem unreasonable for us to 
ask for a modest appropriation for the purchase of a few books 
and such few journals of comparative medicine as are published. 
REPORTS. 
It has seemed best to your Advisory Board and to ourselves, 
that in the future a special report be rendered to your Board deal- 
ing almost exclusively with statistical information and such con- 
clusions and recommendations as should be brought before you 
alone. In addition to this official report, that an article or articles 
dealing more with the scientific part of our work be rendered for 
publication in the Report, or elsewhere, as you may wish. This 
will enable us to study each year some particular problem, in a 
more satisfactory way and at the same time will, we believe, give 
you more concisely the facts needed for your consideration, re- 
lieving our report from yearly repetition of almost axiomatic 
facts. We have attempted to follow this general plan in this 
year’s report but shall have the matter in better hand next year. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Hartow Brooks. 
New York, February I, 1904. 
