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In this connection it might be stated that under the present 

 law, the City can provide for the maintenance of the Aquarium 

 up to $50,000 per annum. The Legislature will be requested this 

 year, to change this provision by striking it out altogether. 

 The enormous attendance at this popular institution makes ad- 

 ditional attendants and equipment an imperative necessity. 



Aquarium Improvement Fund. — A balance of only $530.25 

 remains in this fund. The sum of $5,000 has been received from 

 the City as a Special Improvement Fund for a new roof. The 

 contract has been awarded and the work started. 



Detailed statements of the above accounts are set forth in 

 the Treasurer's reports on page 55. 



LIBRARY FOR THE PARK. 



A fund for the purchase of a library is required, and 

 $20,000 must be made available for this purpose. Towards this 

 amount Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge and Miss Helen Miller Gould 

 have already donated $1,000 each, and it is hoped that other 

 special subscriptions for this purpose may soon be received. 

 A library committee, consisting of Messrs. Madison Grant, 

 Chairman, John S. Barnes, and William T. Hornaday, has been 

 formed, and now that suitable quarters are provided for books 

 in the Administration Building, the Committee intends to take 

 up the matter of assembling a zoological library in the immedi- 

 ate future. Such a library has become a necessity both for the 

 Aquarium and for the Park, and donations of works on travel, 

 exploration, sport, and above all on vertebrate zoology, will be 

 greatly appreciated. 



IMPORTANT GIFTS TO THE PARK. 



The most important gifts to the Park have been as follows : 

 — Colonel Anthony R. Kuser, $60,000, for an expedition to study 

 pheasants in Asia and for the illustration and printing of a 

 monograph on the subject; Mr. William Rockefeller, $8,000, 

 for moving the fountain from Baird Court to the Concourse; 

 an Alaskan Brown Bear from Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge; a Sable 

 Antelope from Miss Jean W. Simpson; two Elands and four 

 Hangul Deer from the Duke of Bedford ; a Warthog, from 

 Messrs. E. Hubert Litchfield, Bayard Dominick, Jr., and Henry 

 Sampson, Jr., and the gifts to the Endowment Fund, and to the 

 Collection of Heads and Horns, referred to elsewhere in this 

 report. 



