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photographic privilege of "the greatest good to the greatest 

 number" is the best that could have been devised. Another 

 source of satisfaction is found in the fact that during the past 

 13 years no unworthy or unfair photographs ever have gone 

 out of the Park for publication. 



A number of moving-picture companies have contributed 

 to the annual income of our photographic department and have 

 paid for the privilege of making moving-picture films of our 

 animals, always subject to the approval of the Director. Some 

 excellent moving pictures of the Park collections are now being 

 shown throughout the United States. 



The publication during the year, aside from those for the 

 Privilege Department, consisted of the Sixteenth Annual Report, 

 four numbers of Zoologica, six numbers of the Bulletin, a new 

 edition of the Official Guide, and two folders. 



DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING. 

 George M. Beerbower, Civil Engineer". 



So continuous have been our requirements for the services 

 of our engineer during the past year, that he could not be 

 spared even for a week at a time for his usual vacation. This 

 was due chiefly to delays in the iron-work and glass-work of 

 the Pelican House, which he was superintending, and delays in 

 passing on plans for the Yak House, which he drew and revised 

 from time to time. 



The work of the engineer is made up of so many details, and 

 in such a great variety, that it is not expedient to enumerate all 

 of them here. The more important items of his work were the 

 revising of the plans for a masonry bridge for Bronxdale 

 brook ; the surveys and plans for the rock excavation in the 

 service yard ; the preliminary plans for additions to the res- 

 taurant and lunch pavilion ; the surveys, walk plans, plats and 

 grading plans and staking out of same in the vicinity of the 

 Eagle and Vulture Aviary, winter-house, breeding-cages and 

 the Zebra House; the superintendence of the construction of 

 the Pelican House and photograph gallery; preliminary plans 

 for roads and w'alks east of the Bronx River; studies and plans 

 for a Yak House ; surveys and drawings for a retaining wall 

 east of the restaurant ; plans for a dark-room for the photo- 

 graph gallery, and a boiler-room for the Pelican House. 



