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small cash balance on hand. An additional $10,000 have been 

 guaranteed by the individual members of the Executive Com- 

 mittee, making available a total building fund of $104,000. 



The Committee have requested Mr. Henry D. Whitfield to 

 prepare detailed plans and specifications for the building, with 

 a view of awarding the contract in the spring of 1920. 



An additional $40,000 will be required and the Committee 

 desire to obtain four subscriptions of $10,000 each to this fund. 



WILD LIFE PROTECTION. 



Perhaps the most important matter under this heading dur- 

 ing the year was the fight at Albany to prevent the enactment of 

 the law permitting the killing of female deer. The conservative 

 sportsmen in the Adirondacks and elsewhere were behind this 

 opposition, but in spite of them the so-called buck law was re- 

 pealed. 



The measure, however, will undoubtedly be again enacted 

 into law during the coming season because up to date eleven men 

 have been killed in the Adirondacks by mistake, while the slaugh- 

 ter of does has been excessive. 



There has been no demand during the year on the Society's 

 fund for Wild Life Protection as all work of this nature was 

 financed by the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund. 



The balance on hand January 1, 1920, was $981.31. 



PUBLICATION FUND. 



The balance on hand on January 1, 1920> was $1,707.28. 

 A new catalogue of the Aquarium, which is now in course of 

 preparation should be ready in the immediate future. 



It virtually is a guide book. The publication has been 

 financed by the Aquarium Fund with the exception of $1,000 

 advanced by the Society. The price will be forty cents per copy. 

 This catalogue would have been on sale if it had not been delayed 

 by the printer's strike. 



