NINTH ANNUAL REPORT. 35 
GIFTS. 
The Society has received during the year many gifts, for which 
the Committee desires to express the thanks of the Society. A 
full list of gifts will be found on page 123 of this Report, but 
special mention should be made of the following: 
Gifts of money from Messrs. Percy R. Pyne, Grant B. Schley, 
Norman James, Frederick Gilbert Bourne. 
Riding Elephant from Col. Oliver H. Payne. 
Two Snow Leopards from Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss. 
A Baker’s Roan Antelope and five Punjab Wild Sheep from 
Mr. George C. Clark. 
Two Burrhel Sheep from Mr. J. J. Hill. 
Collection of Bird Skins, Nests and Eggs from Mr, C. William 
Beebe. 
In addition to the above Mr. Charles T. Barney assumed the 
burden of providing the entire collection for the new Ostrich 
House. 
The Society received a very notable gift from Dr. Alfred G. 
Mayer, in the manuscript of his book on Invertebrates in the 
neighborhood of New York. This book is of great scientific value, 
as well as public interest, and represents much research and learn- 
ing on the part of the author. The Executive Committee desires 
to take this opportunity to express its appreciation of this gift 
from Dr. Mayer. The Aquarium also received a valuable col- 
lection of fish from the St. Louis Exposition, through the courtesy 
of the Fisheries Bureau at Washington. 
COLLECTIONS. 
The animal collections of the Zoological Park have been 
throughout the year so large that it was impossible to make any 
notable increase in them, save as new installations were erected 
and made ready for occupancy. In number of large species, and 
in scientific as well as intrinsic value, the collections are to-day 
far beyond any point attained heretofore. It has been a stand- 
ing order of the Executive Committee to the Director that no 
opportunity to secure desirable specimens should be lost, pro- 
vided accommodations were available. 
During the year two exhibition collections required to be 
broken up, temporarily, on account of the building of permanent 
quarters. These were the collections of the temporary Small 
Mammal House and Pheasant Aviary. A third collection, that 
