FIRST ANXTAL RI-PORT. -I7 



Section 7. "The Coinniissioiiers of the Sinkiii); Fund of 

 the said city are authorized in their discretion, to allot, set apart, 

 and appropriate for the use of said corporation any of the land 

 belonging to said city north of One Hundred and Fifty-fifth 

 Street, but not in the Central Park, and such appropriation 

 may be revoked if after the expiration of five years from the 

 passage of the act a zoological garden is not established thereon ; 

 said grounds thus set apart and appropriated shall be used for 

 no purpose whatsoever except those aforesaid. As soon as any 

 lands are set apart, the Mayor of said city of New York and the 

 President of the Department of Parks of said city shall become 

 and be ex-oflficio members of the l^oard of Managers of said 

 corporation." 



Free Admission. — The law requires the free admission of 

 the public on four days in each week, one of which shall be 

 Sunday. It is the present intention of the Executive Commit- 

 tee to recommend that the Zoological Park shall be open to 

 free admission for six days in each week, and that one day only 

 shall be set apart for the benefit of members of the Society, 

 students and artists, and for repairs. The field exhibits, the 

 river, and the woods will be open to the public at all times. 



During the past five months the officers of the Zoological 

 Society have made a thorough and exhaustive study of all the 

 unoccupied and unimproved parks north of the Harlem River, 

 in order to determine what location would be best adapted to 

 the requirements of a Zoological Park founded on an ample 

 scale, and would also meet the requirements of the public in 

 regard to accessibility. In these investigations the Society has 

 availed itself of the advice of the best zoological garden experts 

 in the country.* As the result of all studies and investiga- 

 tions, this committee has now reached the unanimous conclu- 

 sion that in all the various parks north of the Harlem River 



* The following gentlemen have served in this capacity : Mr. Arthur 

 E. Brown, Superintendent Philadelphia Zoological Gardens ; Dr. Frank 

 Baker, Superintendent of the Washington Zoological Park ; Prof. D. G. 

 Elliot, Curator of Zoology, Field Museum, Chicago ; and Mr. William T. 

 Hornaday, Director for the New York Zoological Park. 



