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The receipts during the year were $4,250 and the cash bal- 

 ance on hand, December 31, 1918, amounted to $7,421.68. 



TROPICAL RESEARCH FUND. 



Owing to war conditions, work at the Tropical Research 

 Station was suspended and the year was devoted to the study 

 and publication of the scientific results already obtained. The 

 first volume of "Tropical Wild Life" was published during the 

 year. The volume was supplied at cost to the members, namely, 

 $2.00 ; the price to those other than members being $3.00. Re- 

 ceipts from the sale of this attractive book during the year were 

 $536.24. 



Subscriptions during 1918 for the maintenance of tropical 

 research work were as follows : 



Mortimer L. Schiff $1,000 



Andrew Carnegie 500 



C. Ledyard Blair 500 



$2,000 

 The total expenses of this fund amounted to $3,056.44, leav- 

 ing a balance on hand of $409.19 of the subscriptions for 1918. 



A call for subscriptions for 1919 has been made and the 

 following have subscribed : 



Anthony R. Kuser $1,500 



Andrew Carnegie 1,000 



A. Barton Hepburn 1,000 



George J. Gould 1,000 



C. Ledyard Blair 500 



Cleveland H. Dodge 500 



Mortimer L. Schiff 500 



$6,000 

 Of this amount, $4,000 have been paid. With this money it is 

 intended to re-establish the Research Station and continue the 

 really brilliant work now under way. It is hoped that this sta- 

 tion will develop ultimately not only into a great source of supply 

 of animals for the Park and the Aquarium, but that it will lead, 

 under the able directorship of Mr. Beebe, to a biological station 

 that will be unique among the zoological foundations of the 

 world. 



