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walls of the wings for the New Aquarium Building in Bat- 

 tery Park, under the jurisdiction of the Department of 

 Parks, Boroughs of Manhattan and Richmond, and that 

 when authority therefor shall have been obtained from the 

 Board of Aldermen, the Comptroller be, and is hereby au- 

 thorized to issue said corporate stock of the City of New 

 York in the manner provided by Section 169 of the Greater 

 New York Charter, the proceeds thereof to the amount of 

 the par value of the stock to be applied to the purposes 

 aforesaid. 



The above resolution was adopted by the Board of Aldermen 

 on July 31, 1911, and took effect September 19, 1911. No por- 

 tion of this has, as yet, been expended. 



A request for $600,000 will be made during the coming 

 spring to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, which can 

 be added to the $200,000 already in hand, and used to build the 

 foundations and a portion of the new building. 



The plans are being prepared by the architect, Mr. J. Stew- 

 art Barney, and your Committee propose to associate with Mr. 

 Barney as Engineer, Mr. William Barclay Parsons, who will 

 have charge of the construction of the building. 



IMPORTANT GIFTS TO THE PARK. 



During the year several valuable gifts were received, in- 

 cluding a Cape hunting dog, three leopards, spotted hyena, two 

 lion cubs and several monkeys received from Mr. Paul J. Rainey. 

 Mr. Emerson McMillin presented an oil painting entitled, An Old 

 Prospector, and a copy of the original edition of Wilson's Amer- 

 ican Ornithology. A valuable collection of maps was received 

 from Mr. C. William Beebe, and two mule deer were donated by 

 Col. Anthony R. Kuser. 



ANIMAL COLLECTIONS. 



During the year the collection of mammals was strength- 

 ened by the arrival of a number of particularly rare and inter- 

 esting forms. The most notable were a gorilla, a spectacled bear 

 from Ecuador, an Andean black bear, a Cape hunting dog, two 

 wombats, two snow leopards, a spotted hyena and a blessbok. 

 The collection of birds received a great number of species new 

 to the Park, and our list of species on exhibition made a great 

 advance. At this time it is probable that the total number of 

 species on exhibition is equal to the greatest number exhibited 



