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and study such of the pheasants as are accessible from these 

 points. He is taking with him an artist who will make sketches 

 and studies on the spot. With the material thus gathered, and 

 the living specimens in the collection of Col. Kuser, illustrations, 

 correct from a zoological standpoint and artistically beautiful, 

 will be secured for a monograph of the greatest value. Artists 

 of the reputation of Charles R. Knight, L. A. Fuertes and Bruce 

 Horsefall have been engaged and are now at work. 



The total cost of the expedition and of the monograph will 

 be over $60,000, all of which is to be provided by Col. Kuser. 

 It is hoped that this is only the first of a series of scientific ex- 

 ploring expeditions M^hich are to be sent out by the Society to 

 remote points on the globe. 



During the summer of 1909, Mr. Raymond L. Ditmars, our 

 Curator of Reptiles and Assistant Curator of Mammals, was sent 

 abroad to study the Zoological Gardens of Europe. This trip 

 resulted in our obtaining some valuable new animals. Mr. Dit- 

 mars' report is published in Bulletin No. 36 for October, 1909. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications of the Society in 1909 were as follows: — 

 Annual Report; four regular issues of the Bulletin and the ex- 

 tra Hudson-Fulton Number, specially prepared by the Director 

 of the Park; five numbers of Zoologica: a pamphlet. List of 

 Birds of the Park, and a special report of the Director of the 

 Aquarium, Instantaneous Color Changes of Fishes. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



The Executive Committee again has the pleasant duty of 

 reporting to your Board, that the relations between the Society 

 and the City officials, both as to the Park and the Aquarium, have 

 been in all respects extremely satisfactory. Mayor McClellan, 

 and especially Comptroller Metz, have been sympathetic and 

 helpful, and the thanks of the Society are again due to Park Com- 

 missioners Smith and Berry, as well as Chief Engineer Martin 

 Schenck and Chief Clerk Ackerman, and the officials in the Park 

 Department of the Borough of Manhattan. 



Signed, 



Henry Fairfield Osborn, President, Samuel Thorne, 



Madison Grant, Chairman, William White Niles, 



John S. Barnes, Levi P. Morton, 



Percy R. Pyne, Wm. Pierson Hamilton. 



