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ings. Also to Mr. H. A. Caparn, our landscape architect, for his 

 valued advice on many difficult questions of park treatment. 



We especially desire to express our appreciation of the work 

 of Director Hornaday during the past year, and of the efficient 

 services rendered by the members of his scientific and admin- 

 istrative staff. In view, especially, of the work of Messrs. R. L. 

 Ditmars and C. William Beebe, in charge of reptiles and birds, 

 respectively, the Committee has recommended their promotion to 

 curatorships. Other acknowledgments of the efficiency and 

 esprit dc corps of the staff will be found in the report of our 

 Director. 



We desire to make special acknowledgment of the co-opera- 

 tion of the Hon. John E. Eustis, Commissioner of Parks for 

 the Borough of the Bronx, and his staff. The Committee desire 

 to take this opportunity to express also their appreciation of the 

 cordial co-operation of other municipal authorities in this work, 

 but chiefly the Mayor, Hon. Seth Low, Comptroller Edward M. 

 Grout, and Park Commissioner of Manhattan, Hon. William E. 

 Willcox. 



COXCLUSION 



The formative or projection period of the Zoological Park has 

 practically come to a close; but we have by no means reached 

 the point of execution of all the plans and ideals which have been 

 forming in our minds for the beautifying of the Park, for increas- 

 ing the effectiveness of the collections of animals as a part of the 

 educational system of the City, and for increasing our installations 

 and exhibits. From this standpoint it appears as if our work 

 were only beginning. We need the intelligent co-operation of the 

 younger citizens of New York, of men who can devote some of 

 their time and brains, who by first joining the Society and grad- 

 ually familiarizing themselves with its purposes, can prepare for 

 taking part in the interesting but very responsible work of admin- 

 istration. 



Respectfully submitted, 

 Henry Fairfield Osborn, Chairman. 

 John S. Barnes, Madison Grant, 



William White Niles, Philip Schuyler, 

 Samuel Thorne, Charles T. Barney, 



Levi P. Morton, Ex-ofRcio. 

 New York, January i, 1903. 



