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of $5,000 a year for five years will probably cover the cost of the 
full-sized portraits of all the important large game animals of 
North America, together with such of the smaller birds and 
animals as are threatened with immediate extermination. 
The committee in charge consists of Messrs. Frank K. Stur- 
gis, Chairman; Lewis Rutherfurd Morris, Watson B. Dickerman 
and William T. Hornaday. 
The Gallery has received from Mrs. Frederick Ferris 
Thompson a gift of great interest and value, viz, the Lioness 
Portrait by Rosa Bonheur. It has been hung over the fireplace 
in the Ladies’ Reception Room of the Administration Building. 
A full-sized picture of the Alaska Moose, at a cost of $1,500; 
a portrait of Dinah, the gorilla, at a cost of $300, and the “Grant 
Caribou,” at a cost of $1,250, all by Mr. Carl Rungius, have been 
completed during 1915, and are now on exhibition in the Admin- 
istration Building. The next picture by Mr. Rungius will be 
the “White Fronted Musk-Ox,” also at a cost of $1,250. 
Subscriptions of $250 for 1915 to the fund for the Gallery 
of Oil Paintings have been received from the following: 
Frank K. Sturgis, Lispenard Stewart, Percy R. Pyne, Mor- 
timer L. Schiff, Joseph A. McAleenan, James J. Hill, Frederick 
G. Bourne, F. Augustus Schermerhorn, George F. Baker, Edward 
S. Harkness, C. Ledyard Blair, Grant B. Schley, Ogden Mills, 
Andrew Carnegie, Cleveland H. Dodge, Watson B. Dickerman, 
Henry M. Tilford, George J. Gould, Samuel Thorne, Charles F. 
Dieterich. 
Nine of the above subscribers have signified their willing- 
ness to renew their subscriptions for subsequent years, and your 
committee feel that under normal conditions they confidently can 
rely upon the balance. 
CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE ABUSE OF PARKS. 
On May 1, 1915, Mayor Mitchel, Police Commissioner Woods 
and the Park Commissioners began a general and very deter- 
mined campaign against all persons who persist in abusing pub- 
lic parks by throwing rubbish in them. This is the first general 
effort of the kind that has ever been made in the city, and became 
necessary because to the lawless and disorderly portion of park 
visitors, appeals and admonitions had ceased to have any effect. 
It was decided by the Mayor and formally set forth in a proc- 
