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size the cordial relations which have been maintained between 

 the Park and Aquarium and the City authorities. 



The devotion of the Directors of the Park and of the Aquar- 

 ium and their respective staffs, has continued to be a source of 

 strength to the Society, and of satisfaction to your Committee. 

 We take pleasure in closing this report of progress by assuring 

 the Board of Managers that the Society was never in a stronger 

 position, either in its internal harmony or in its external rela- 

 tions with the City of New York and the public at large. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Madison Grant, Chairman, 



Percy R. Pyne, Wm. Pierson Hamilton, 



Samuel Thorne, Frank K. Sturgis, 



Levi P. Morton, Lispenard Stewart, 



William White Niles, Henry Fairfield Osborn, 



ex-olficio. 



