G8 NEW \ORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Treasurer's orders and checks. The amount covered by the 

 various accounts and disbursements named above aggregated 

 more than $175,000.00. 



But one important change was made in the Chief Clerk's force 

 during the year — that of Assistant. Mr. Charles F. Dickinson, 

 who had satisfactorily filled the position for eighteen months, re- 

 signed on November first to go into business for himself. Mr. 

 William Mitchell, Jr., was engaged to fill the vacancy, and 

 assumed the duties on the first of November. Mr. Mitchell is 

 well fitted for the position, and comes to us with a number of 

 years of active experience in ofifice work. 



Several important changes have been made during the year 

 in the manner of rendering bills to the City for reimbursement, 

 which have resulted in greatly facilitating their payment. 



DEPARTMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHY. — Elwin R. -Sanhom, Photog- 

 rapher and Assistant Editor of Publications. 



The Zoological Society has entered seriously upon the work 

 of collecting photographic records of its animals, both for present 

 and future use. It is now a fixed policy that whenever a rare 

 animal arrives, especially one which is new to the Zoological 

 Park, it is the duty of the Photographer, and also the curators 

 and keepers, to secure good photographs of it at the earliest 

 moment practicable. 



In pursuance of this policy the Society has provided Mr. 

 Sanborn with two workrooms, a modest outfit of cameras and 

 lenses, and has also equipped a special studio for indoor work. 

 Already several hundred negatives of mammals, birds, and rep- 

 tiles have been taken, a set of index albums has been made, and 

 prints are on sale at a small profit above the cost of making 

 them. 



In order to control this valuable material the photographs are 

 copyrighted, and the choicest ])ictures are reserved for first ap- 

 pearance in the publications that are issued for the benefit of 

 the members of the Society. The Society shares with the public 

 the right to reproduce its photographs, but is obliged to make a 

 small charge, according to the material used, as a partial return 

 of the cost involved. Already many publishers of books, maga- 

 zines, and newspapers have availed themselves of the Society's 

 photographic materials. 



Those who are unacquainted by personal experience with the 

 difficulties to be surmounted in obtaining a good photograph of 

 a wild animal have not the faintest conception of the cost of 



