NINTH ANNUAL REPORT. 35 



GIFTS. 



The Society has received during the year many gifts, for which 

 the Committee desires to express the thanks of the Society. A 

 full list of gifts will be found on page 123 of this Report, but 

 special mention should be made of the following : 



Gifts of money from Messrs. Percy R. Pyne, Grant B. Schley, 

 Norman James, Frederick Gilbert Bourne. 



Riding Elephant from Col. Oliver H. Payne. 



Two Snow Leopards from Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss. 



A Baker's Roan Antelope and five Punjab Wild Sheep from 

 Mr. George C. Clark. 



Two Burrhel Sheep from Mr. J. J. Hill. 



Collection of Bird Skins, Nests and Eggs from Air. C. William 

 Beebe. 



In addition to the above Mr. Charles T. Barney assumed the 

 burden of providing the entire collection for the new Ostrich 

 House. 



The Society received a very notable gift from Dr. Alfred G. 

 Mayer, in the manuscript of his book on Invertebrates in the 

 neighborhood of New York. This book is of great scientific value, 

 as well as public interest, and represents much research and learn- 

 ing on the part of the author. The Executive Committee desires 

 to take this opportunity to express its appreciation of this gift 

 from Dr. Mayer. The Aquarium also received a valuable col- 

 lection of fish from the St. Louis Exposition, through the courtesy 

 of the Fisheries Bureau at Washington. 



COLLECTIONS. 



The animal collections of the Zoological Park have been 

 throughout the year so large that it was impossible to make any 

 notable increase in them, save as new installations were erected 

 and made ready for occupancy. In number of large species, and 

 in scientific as well as intrinsic value, the collections are to-day 

 far beyond any point attained heretofore. It has been a stand- 

 ing order of the Executive Committee to the Director that no 

 opportunity to secure desirable specimens should be lost, pro- 

 vided accommodations were available. 



During the year two exhibition collections required to be 

 broken up, temporarily, on account of the building of permanent 

 quarters. These were the collections of the temporary Small 

 Mammal House and Pheasant Aviary. A third collection, that 



