60 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



They are at present making the usual audit of the finances 

 of the Society for the year, which is being greatly facilitated by 

 the new system of checking the accounts quarterly. Their report 

 as well as that of the Auditing Committee will immediately fol- 

 low the report of the Treasurer. 



RETIREMENT OF MARTIN SCHENCK. 



With the abolishment of the position of Chief Engineer of 

 the Park Department in the Borough of the Bronx, the Society 

 loses a friend who has been most helpful in promoting the inter- 

 ests of the Zoological Park. Mr, Martin Schenck has acted in 

 this rapacity during the entire period of the construction and 

 existence of the Park, and your committee have always found 

 in him an efficient, faithful and devoted public official, and 

 greatly appreciate his long services to the Society and to the 

 public. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



The relations with all departments and officials of the City's 

 government, and especially with the Park Department, have con- 

 tinued to be most cordial, and your committee are greatly in- 

 debted to these officials, as well as the members of the Board 

 of Estimate and Apportionment, for their support and co-opera- 

 tion during the past year. 



The Directors of the Park and the Aquarium, and their re- 

 spective staffs, have been most zealous and energetic in the 

 performance of their duties, and the Society enters upon this 

 new year with the assurance of an ever-increasing sphere of 

 activity and usefulness. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Madison Grant, Chairman. 



Percy R. Pyne, Frank K. Sturgis, 



William White Niles, Lispenard Stewart, 



Wm. Pierson Hamilton, Watson B. Dickerman, 

 Henry Fairfield Osborn, 



Ex-Officio. 



