APPLICATION TO THK COMMISSIONKRS OF THE 

 SINKING FUND, CITY OF NICW YORK, FOR 



AN allotmf:nt of land to be used 



AS A PUBLIC ZOOLOGICAL 



GARDEN. 



Presented by the Tresident and Executive Committee of the New York 

 Zoological Society, May 21st, 18%. 



New York Zoological Society, 

 69 Wall Street. 



New York, May 21st, 1896. 



To Ike Himorable Conmissioncrs of the Sinking Fund^ City of 

 New York. 



Gentlemen : — The Executive Committee of the New York 

 Zoological Society has the honor to inform yon that a corporate 

 body has been formed under the above designation (Laws of 

 New York for 1895, chapter 435) for the purposes (1) of estab- 

 lishing and maintaining in this city a zoological park, (2) for 

 the preservation^ of the North American native animals, and 

 (3) the encouragement and advancement of zoology. 



In the furtherance of the Society's principal object — viz. , the 

 establishment of the zoological garden or park — it is necessary 

 to acquire the use of a suitable area in one of the unoccupied 

 and unimproved parks of this city, north of the Harlem River. 

 If the allotment of a satisfactory site can be obtained, the Zoo- 

 logical Society will immediately thereafter prepare a general 

 plan and seek to obtain the funds necessary to initiate the 

 scheme of improvements that may be agreed upon. 



By the terms of the act of incorporation of this Society, the 

 Commissioners of the Sinking F\ind are empowered in the fol- 

 lowing language to make to the New York Zoological Society 

 an allotment of land : 



