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Every effort is being made by your committee to preserve 

 this specimen in good health, and an outside cage has been 

 constructed to give her open air treatment. In spite of this, 

 however, her health has visibly declined, but your committee 

 hopes that it may only be a temporary condition which will pass 

 off. A full account of this animal will appear in the Director's 

 report. 



Crandall Expedition. — During the spring your committee 

 authorized an expedition to South America to secure a collec- 

 tion of birds. The expedition started from New York on March 

 21, in charge of Mr. Lee S. Crandall, Assistant Curator of Birds 

 at the Zoological Park. Six weeks were spent in the field, the 

 total result being more than three hundred living specimens, 

 including mammals, birds, reptiles, batrachians, fishes and in- 

 sects, a great majority of which had not previously been ex- 

 hibited here. 



Tour of Veterinarians. — Dr. W. Reid Blair, Veterinarian 

 at the Zoological Park, has made an official tour of European 

 Veterinary Hospitals and Laboratories, under the auspices of 

 the American Veterinary Medical Association, leaving New 

 York on June 13, and returning August 22, and during August 

 attended the International Veterinary Congress in London. His 

 report will appear at length in this volume. 



Mowbray Expedition. — An expedition to Louisiana to col- 

 lect large fresh-water fishes in the Mississippi River was au- 

 thorized on April 2, under Mr. L. L. Mowbray, for many years 

 in charge of the Aquarium at Bermuda, and lately in charge of 

 the Aquarium at Boston. One hundred and twelve specimens 

 of fresh-water fishes were obtained, consisting of ten species, 

 and forty-three turtles, consisting of four species. Mr. Mow- 

 bray has been placed permanently on the Aquarium staff. 



WILD LIFE PROTECTION. 



Early in April the violent opposition to the federal migra- 

 tory bird law, that for three months had been manifested in 

 Kansas City, Missouri, developed in the United States Senate, 

 and created a situation that required prompt and vigorous treat- 

 ment. The movement set forward by Senator James A. Reed, 

 was calculated to destroy our most valuable bird law by with- 

 holding an appropriation for its enforcement, in order that the 

 law might be utterly discredited. The Director of the Park was 

 forced to join the officers of other bird protecting organizations 



