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of the Park, where the most important buildings are to be located, 
and also to make a complete geographical survey of the entire 
Park, excepting the few features taken from the official maps. 
Every step taken was considered with the utmost care. 
During the progress of the work, the Committee sought the ad- 
vice and assistance of a number of gentlemen possessed of techni- 
cal knowledge of value to the work in hand. Regarding the 
main court, Mr. Thomas Hastings, of Carrere & Hastings, was 
consulted ; on engineering, Mr. W. Barclay Parsons, of the Rapid 
Transit Commission; on the general landscape development, 
the late Park Commissioner, William A. Stiles. Professor Chas. 
S. Sargent, of Harvard University, also accepted a place on this 
Advisory Committee, but was subsequently prevented from 
serving. 
Messrs. Heins & LaFarge were appointed Architects, and 
commissioned to develop especially the architectural and land- 
scape features of the main court and its main approaches. Mr. 
Charles N. Lowrie, who has had considerable experience in the 
public parks, was regularly employed for the landscape treatment 
of the portions outlying the main court. The Director cooper- 
ated in and partly supervised all this work, so that the scientific 
and practical requirements should be met at every point. All the 
plans were developed under the supervision of the Executive 
Committee, whose decision on all points in dispute was accepted 
as final. 
Upon the special features of the buildings for animals, and 
the general plan, Mr. Arthur E. Brown, Superintendent of the 
Zoological Garden of Philadelphia, Mr. Carl Hagenbeck, of Ham- 
burg, Dr. J. A. Allen, of the American Museum of Natural His- 
tory,and Professor D. G. Elliot, of the Field Columbian Mu- 
seum, Chicago, were consulted, and kindly gave their valuable 
time and advice. We are greatly indebted to these gentlemen for 
their suggestions, which have been duly considered in the prepa- 
ration of the plans. 
After several months of labor, the ‘‘/zxal Plan of the 
Zoological Park’’ was completed, drawn in duplicate, signed by 
the President and all the other members of the Executive Com- 
mittee, and on November 15th it was laid before the Board of 
Parks for approval. With it the Society presented a communi- 
cation setting forth the care and labor that had been bestowed up- 
