TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 71 



QUALITY OF SERVICE 



The services rendered by the members of the Zoological 

 Park force continue to reveal a high order of merit. The giving 

 of an order is in itself an assurance that the work called for will 

 be promptly, cheerfully and skilfully performed. Here the 

 standard of service is such that incompetents who enter soon 

 drop out, or are dropped. We have lost quite a number of ex- 

 cellent employees through conditions beyond our control, the 

 most notable for 1920 being Mrs. Ethel Sutliffe Meyer and Mrs. 

 Clara Keiss Newman. 



After January 1, 1921, each member of our uniformed force 

 who has served more than live years will wear a gold bar chevron 

 for each five years of service in the Zoological Park. 



SPECIAL POLICE FOR PARKS. 



In the winter of 1920 Park Commissioner Joseph P. Hen- 

 nessy, of the Bronx, caused to be drafted, and with the full 

 approval of the Park Board and Police Commissioner Enright, 

 introduced in the legislature at Albany a bill to provide for 

 special park police. On account of the pressure of other matters, 

 this highly desirable and important measure was not successfully 

 pressed to a conclusion; but it is to be hoped that in the near 

 future the bill can be passed. The rapidly increasing population 

 of New York City is also rapidly increasing in disorderly tenden- 

 cies in public parks, and a far better system of park protection 

 now has become imperatively necessary. 



DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALS. 



W. T. HoRNADAY, Curator; R. L. Ditmars, Assistant Curator; 

 John Toomey, Head Keeper. 



Never since the opening of the Park has the Department of 

 Mammals passed a more active or a more interesting year. These 

 activities were due to arrivals and departures. The receipt of 

 three large collections from abroad already has been noted in this 

 report. The activities connected therewith were supplemented 

 by the crating and shipping of a large collection of duplicate 

 animals and animals specially purchased for exportation to the 



