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is, or was, malarious. It is diflicult to uiiderstaiul wliy such a 

 conditiou should exist there, and there is S(Mue reason to doubt 

 its existence at the present time. 



10. CoNTK'.i iTY To 1m<i:i<;ht Raii.w.w. — The nearest sta- 

 tion on tile New York and New Haven Railway is at Pelham, 

 three-lifths of a mile from the north-west corner of South Bronx 

 Park, which makes a .short haul, either with materials or live 

 animals. 



RivCOiSiMENDATioN. — In vicw of all the foregoing, and from 

 the standpoint of one who.se reputation is at stake on the issue, 

 I have neither doubt nor hesitation in recommending South 

 Hronx Park as the spot best adapted to the creation of a truly 

 great and monumental zoological park, by the New York Zoo- 

 logical Society. It is the spot which will lend itself most kindly 

 and pliantly to the end in view. It is the spot where the 

 greatest results can be accomplished with the least money, and 

 in the shortest time. I am sure, in my own mind, it is the spot 

 that, in the end, would yield the greate.st amount of pleasure 

 and of actual benefit to the three million inhabitants of greater 

 New York. A zoological park located on that spot, and sup- 

 ported by a reasonable amount of money, can be made the finest 

 institution of the kind in the world, a source of unbounded 

 pride to the metropolis of this continent, and of lasting benefit 

 to the city, the state, and the nation. 



Respectfully submitted, 



William T. Hornaday, 



Diifitor of t/w pioposai Zoological Park. 



New York, April 21), IS'JG. 



of sewerage flowing through the Park. The abatement of this dangerous 

 nuisance will undoubtedly be brought about in a very short time, and cer- 

 tainly in advance of the opening of the Zoological Park. W. T. H. 



