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NEW BUILDINGS AND INSTALLATIONS. 



The Rockefeller Fountain is being moved at the cost of the 

 donor, Mr, William Rockefeller, from its present location to an 

 imposing site in the center of the Concourse. The most import- 

 ant new building is the Administration Building, which is nearly 

 completed, and will be taken over by the Society during the 

 month of February, 1910. This structure will provide proper 

 accommodations for the Director and officers of the Society, and 

 will be specifically a Park house for the members of the Society. 

 It represents the first expenditure ever made by the City of New 

 York for the convenience of the Zoological Society. Besides the 

 executive offices it will contain the Society's zoological library, 

 together with suitable reading rooms and various animal pictures 

 and sculptures. The privileges of the Administration Building 

 will greatly enhance the value of membership in the Zoological 

 Society, and it is hoped that a substantial and much-needed in- 

 crease will result. Most important of all it will house the Na- 

 tional Collection of Heads and Horns, inaugurated some two 

 years ago through the generosity of the Director of the Park, Dr. 

 William T. Hornaday, and which now bids fair to be the most 

 interesting exhibit in the Zoological Park. 



NATIONAL COLLECTION OF HEADS AND HORNS. 



The National Collection has increased with great rapidity. 

 It now contains 615 specimens, and already is nearly sufficient to 

 fill the two galleries that have temporarily been dedicated to it in 

 the new Administration Building. In species from Africa, Asia 

 and Alaska, the collection is already very strong, but much re- 

 mains to be done in behalf of the American Elk, Mule Deer and 

 White-Tailed Deer. 



The most noteworthy accession of the year 1909, was the 

 very extensive collection of South African heads and horns long 

 known to the world as the F. H. Barber Collection. It repre- 

 sents the work of an ardent sportsman, covering a period of 

 nearly thirty years, and the 150 specimens include a number of 

 highest records. The fund of $3,000, for the purchase of the 

 Barber Collection was contributed by Messrs. Lispenard Stewart, 

 Augustus D. Schermerhorn, Frederick G. Bourne, W. D. Sloane 

 and Charles F. Dieterich. 



Other important gifts consisted of seven additional heads 

 of large African Antelopes from George L. Harrison, Jr., of 

 Philadelphia; Musk-Ox, Greenland Caribou and Walrus heads 



