SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. 7! 
at your disposal a building, and our animals, if you will under- 
take to manage it.’ The scheme was a most alluring one. Had 
I been twenty years younger I would have entered into it with 
great enthusiasm. But when I considered the newness of the 
field, the tentative nature of each step under the circumstances, 
the worry of inventing appliances for everything, the poorness 
of the probable pay, the remoteness of the gardens from my own 
home and from my other work, and, above all, the fact that my 
health is very poor, I reluctantly declined to undertake it.’’ 
My information on the subject so far as Germany is concerned 
is derived from students who left Berlin and came to Paris in the 
hope of getting a better chance to study animals. So far as I 
could make out, there is not much to be learned there in the con- 
duct of an animal-art school. 
In London the Zoo is essentially for zoologists. What would 
a microscopist, a writer or a mathematician think if he had to do 
his work exposed to the weather, and surrounded by a jostling 
rabble of unmannerly persons! Surely an artist’s work requires 
his whole attention as much as does that of the classes named. 
The demand in London at length induced Mr. W. Frank Cal- 
deron to found, in 1892, a private school of animal painting. 
Although his quarters are very small, his equipment meagre, and 
his animals limited to two or three of the domestic species, the 
attendance has doubled each year, and to-day he has, I under- 
stand, one hundred students, and must move into larger quarters. 
Last summer I made a beginning in this direction by opening a 
school at Tappan. My equipment consisted of a large building, 
a few good skeletons, the latest works on anatomy, a few casts of 
animals, and, for living models, one or two domestic species. 
The season was so far advanced before I was ready that the at- 
tendance was not what it might have been. Also, I lacked two 
essentials—convenience to New York, and the more interesting 
wild animals. 
I have given but an outline of the evidence I have on this sub- 
ject, but if the Zoological Society desires it, I can amplify to any 
extent. This much is clear tome: Zhe time has come for a great 
art school for studying animals. Unless it takes form at New 
York, it will at some other point ; and wherever it is founded, it 
will in time make that place the headquarters of animal painting 
and sculpture. 
