38 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
the terms of this act, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment 
appropriated $160,000 on July 24, 1900, which was added to the 
unexpended balance of the appropriation of $125,000, made avail- 
able under Chapter 510, Laws of 1897. The balance of $140,000 
was applied for on January 22, 1901. With the funds supplied 
by these appropriations, the principal items of the following work 
have been contracted for, and of the remainder the plans are 
practically ready: Work-shops, Monkey House, extension of ser- 
vice road, sewers, grading, and planting. 
The plans for the Lion House are nearly complete, and they 
will be placed in the hands of the Park Department at an early 
date. 
IMPORTANT ITEMS OF CONSTRUCTION BY THE CITY IN I900. 
Restaurant and Shelter Pavilion. 
Nine thousand seven hundred and fifty lineal feet of gravel 
walks resurfaced. 
One thousand five hundred lineal feet of service road resur- 
faced. 
Banks of Cope Lake graded, surfaced, and seeded. 
About 1,000 feet of new walks constructed. 
About goo shade and ornamental trees planted in the grounds. 
About 1,200 forest trees were overhauled and pruned. 
PLANS FOR THE BUILDINGS, BAIRD COURT AND CONCOURSE. 
After years of careful study and consideration, the main plans 
of the Park, especially of Baird Court, have been finally com- 
pleted. 
In this important work the Committee, on the recommenda- 
tion of the Chairman, Professor Osborn, determined upon the 
following features as an essential basis for its development: 
1. The establishment of a north and south axis to coincide 
not only with the axis of the glade, but with the axis of the Park 
as a whole. This axis runs south from the Elephant House, di- 
rectly past the Wolf and Fox Dens and three important aviaries, 
giving a noble vista of the Elephant House from the south. 
2. The establishment of the Court on a single level—especially 
necessary for the accommodation of very large crowds of people 
