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understands that the project in general meets with the approval 

 of the authorities. If this be true, and the financial conditions 

 of the City admit, it is believed that the valley of the Bronx 

 can be saved from further desecration. 



PLANS FOR 1911 



At the present time, contracts have been awarded for an 

 additional series of Bear Dens and an Eagle and Vulture Aviary, 

 the latter to occupy the site in Bird Valley formerly occupied by 

 the Moose Range. The plans for the Zebra House are practi- 

 cally completed and a contract will be awarded for its construc- 

 tion during the early spring. 



Your Committee has decided that there is to be a Members' 

 Day annually, on the third Monday in May of each year, May 

 15, 1911 ; a Sportsmen's Day annually, on the first Thursday in 

 June of each year, June 1, 1911, and a Ladies' Day annuallj^ 

 under the auspices of the Ladies' Auxiliary, on the first Thurs- 

 day of May, May 4, 1911. 



In this connection your Committee desires to thank the 

 Ladies' Auxiliary for their zeal and energy and for their great 

 success in obtaining new members for the Society ; and in stimu- 

 lating the interest in the Society's work, not only among ladies, 

 but among children. Your Committee desires to take this oc- 

 casion to make special acknowledgment to the ladies who have 

 contributed so large an amount of time and interest to this work. 



OBITUARY 



Your Committee reports with regret the death, during the 

 past year, of Prof. Alexander Agassiz, and Dr. Arthur Erwin 

 Brown, Honorary Members; Mr. George Crocker, an Associate 

 Founder; Mr. John Stewart Kennedy, a Patron; Mrs. A. New- 

 bold Morris, a Patron ; Mr. C. C. Cuyler, Mr. Samuel D. Warren 

 and Mr. William E. Sands, Life Members. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



Your Committee desires to close this report with the usual 

 acknowledgments to the Directors of the Zoological Park and 

 Aquarium and their respective staffs and assistants. The suc- 

 cess, continued popularity and welfare of the Society and its 

 collections, depend to a very large extent on the good will of its 

 force ; and your Committee desires to again express its apprecia- 

 tion of the loyal devotion of all those concerned in the welfare 

 and care of the animals. 



