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General fund. The Society must look forward in the future 

 to the income from this General Fund as the principal source for 

 the supply of new animals. All the balance derived from mem- 

 bership fees, over and above the necessary running expenses of 

 the Society, is devoted to this purpose. This fund can only be 

 increased by additions to the membership, and the Committee 

 ureses upon the Society the importance of sending in the names 

 of such of their friends as will be interested in joining, and sup- 

 porting our work. Such a city as ours could easily provide 3,000 

 members ; but these can only be secured through individual 

 efforts. The membership on January i, 1903, was 1,210, repre- 

 senting an increase of 117 during the past year. This increase 

 of the General Fund is needed, not only for the purchase of ani- 

 mals, but for the extension of our scientific work. 



Gifts of Animals. The chief gifts of the year are those con- 

 nected with the stocking of the Lion House, for which the Society 

 is indebted chiefly to the following of its friends : 



Nelson Robinson, one pair Barbary Lions. 

 Col. O. H. Payne, one pair Corean Tigers. 

 Charles T. Barney, one pair Bengal Tigers. 

 Andrew Carnegie, one Barbary Lion. 

 Emma B. Auchincloss, one pair Snow Leopards. 

 Cleveland H. Dodge, one Nubian Lion. 



Philip Schuyler, one Senegal Lioness and one IVIanchurian 

 Leopard. 



William D. Sloane, one Jaguar and one pair Black Leopards. 

 Jacob H. Schiff, one Cheetah or Hunting Leopard. 

 Frederick L. Eldridge, one African Leopard. 

 Charles E. Whitehead, one pair Ocelots. 

 Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jr., one Malay Tiger. 



We are also indebted to Mr. William Rockefeller for the gift of 

 a herd of European Red Deer of the best Russian stock, as well as 

 a valuable Fallow Deer from the same source. Hon. William C. 

 Whitney has presented the Park wnth a Musk Ox, th'e first ani- 

 mal of its kind received in this country. The same friend, by 

 exchange of a portion of his Buffalo herd, has secured for us, 

 with the aid of three or four other subscriptions, a pair of the 

 very rare Prejewalsky Horses from Siberia. We are indebted to 

 Mrs. Julia Armour Ferguson and Mrs. Mary Armour Nichols for 

 the gift of $1,000 to our fund, as a memorial to their father, the 

 late H. O. Armour. 



