60 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
They are at present making the usual audit of the finances 
of the Society for the year, which is being greatly facilitated by 
the new system of checking the accounts quarterly. Their report 
as well as that of the Auditing Committee will immediately fol- 
low the report of the Treasurer. 
RETIREMENT OF MARTIN SCHENCK. 
With the abolishment of the position of Chief Engineer of 
the Park Department in the Borough of the Bronx, the Society 
loses a friend who has been most helpful in promoting the inter- 
ests of the Zoological Park. Mr. Martin Schenck has acted in 
this capacity during the entire period of the construction and 
existence. of the Park, and your committee have always found 
in him an efficient, faithful and devoted public official, and 
greatly appreciate his long services to the Society and to the 
public. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 
The relations with all departments and officials of the City’s 
covernment, and especially with the Park Department, have con- 
tinued to be most cordial, and your committee are greatly in- 
debted to these officials, as well as the members of the Board 
of Estimate and Apportionment, for their support and co-opera- 
tion during the past year. 
The Directors of the Park and the Aquarium, and their re- 
spective staffs, have been most zealous and energetic in the 
performance of their duties, and the Society enters upon this 
new year with the assurance of an ever-increasing sphere of 
activity and usefulness. 
Respectfully submitted, 
MADISON GRANT, Chairman. 
PERGY, hs PYNE; FRANK K. STURGIS, 
WILLIAM WHITE NILES, LISPENARD STEWART, 
WM. PIERSON HAMILTON, WATSON B. DICKERMAN, 
HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN, 
Ex-Officio. 
