ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 79 



During the coming year, much engineering work will be re- 

 quired in the western yards of the Small-Deer House, the Zebra 

 Houses, and the Elephant House yards and walks. 



PHOTOGRAPHY AND PUBLICATIONS. 

 Elwin R. Sanborn, Photographer and Asst. Editor. 



Both in variety and importance, the duties of Mr. Sanborn con- 

 stantly increase. The extent and scientific value of the Society's 

 collection of more than 3,000 animal photographs is now becoming 

 generally known, and its sphere of usefulness is rapidly widening. 

 It is no exaggeration to say that the animal photographs made by 

 Mr. Sanborn to serve the special purposes of zoology have fixed a 

 standard of considerable value in such work. It is a fact, however, 

 that even yet there are many persons who hold firmly to the belief 

 that inexperience and an ordinary camera can, without any special 

 facilities, secure good photographs of wild animals in captivity, 

 provided a "permit" can be secured. For many reasons, it is 

 a practical impossibility to permit every person who holds this 

 belief to test it in the Zoological Park. 



During the year Mr. Sanborn has made-up and put through 

 the press the annual report and the regular numbers of The Bul- 

 letin, all illustrated from photographs made by him especially 

 for those publications. His photographs of living amphibians 

 were especially successful, and marked a great advance beyond 

 all previous efforts with animals of that branch. 



The coming year promises to be for Mr. Sanborn's department 

 an unusually busy one. Aside from the regular publications there 

 is to be issued the first number of a new publication on the Na- 

 tional Collection of Heads and Horns, and a new and extended 

 edition of the Guide to the Zoological Park. 



acknowledgments. 



The Director gratefully acknowledges the special devotion to 

 duty of all the officers of the Zoological Park staff during his four 

 months' absence in 1906 on account of illness. It is both a duty 

 and a pleasure to assure the members of the Society that under 

 Chief Clerk Mitchell, as Acting Director, the affairs of the 

 Park were most admirablv conducted, and in the administrative 



