TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT 57 



Members' Reception at Aquarium, 

 8:30 P. M., May 6, 1918. 



Members' Day and Ladies' Day at the Zoological Park, 

 3:00 P. M., May 16, 1918. 



ELECTIONS. 



At the Annual Meeting of the Society in January, 1917, the 

 following Managers were elected: 



Henry Fairfield Osborn, William Pierson Hamilton, 



William C. Church, Robert S. Brewster, 



Lispenard Stewart, Edward S. Harkness, 



Charles F. Dieterich, William B. Osgood Field, 



George F. Baker, A. Barton Hepburn, 



Grant B. Schley, William Woodward. 



Annual Dinner. — The Eighth Annual Dinner of the Board 

 of Managers was held through the courtesy of Mr. C. Ledyard 

 Blair, at his residence, 2 East 70th Street, New York City, on 

 Thursday, February 1, 1917. Short addresses were made by 

 Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn and Mr. Madison Grant. Mr. Ray- 

 mond L. Ditmars, Curator of Reptiles at the Zoological Park, 

 gave an extremely interesting exhibition of moving pictures 

 taken at the Zoological Park and in South Carolina. 



Spring Meeting. — The Spring Meeting of the Board of Man- 

 agers was held in the Administration Building of the Zoological 

 Park on Thursday, May 17, 1917, at 2 :30 o'clock P. M. A lunch- 

 eon in the Rocking Stone Restaurant at the Park was served at 

 1 :30 o'clock. 



BRONX PARKWAY COMMISSION. 



The Bronx Parkway Commission has made rapid progress 

 during the year with improvements and has straightened and 

 cleaned the river bed so as to drain swamp lands preparatory 

 to the construction of the driveway through this parkway. This 

 work and grading and planting operations were carried on at 

 three points: White Plains, Scarsdale, and immediately adjoin- 

 ing the Botanical Gardens. The work of raising the grade of 

 Gun Hill Road by the City and the building of two bridges at 



