114 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



We believe that the records of the past year's work have shown 

 the medical work of the Park to be a financial success, to put it 

 on no higher plane, and it does not seem unreasonable for us to 

 ask for a modest appropriation for the purchase of a few books 

 and such few journals of comparative medicine as are published. 



REPORTS. 



It has seemed best to your Advisory Board and to ourselves, 

 that in the future a special report be rendered to your Board deal- 

 ing almost exclusively with statistical information and such con- 

 clusions and recommendations as should be brought before you 

 alone. In addition to this official report, that an article or articles 

 dealing more with the scientific part of our work be rendered for 

 publication in the Report, or elsewhere, as you may wish. This 

 will enable us to study each year some particular problem, in a 

 more satisfactory way and at the same time will, we believe, give 

 you more concisely the facts needed for your consideration, re- 

 lieving oin* report from yearly repetition of almost axiomatic 

 facts. We have attempted to follow this general plan in this 

 year's report but shall have the matter in better hand next year. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Harlow Brooks. 

 ■New York, February I. 1904. 



