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dens, aviaries, and corrals, 12; Animal storehouses, for winter use, 3; 

 Restaurants, 2; 'Public-comfort buildings, 6; Entrances, 8; Area of 

 park land and water, 264 acres; Area of water, 30 acres; Walks and 

 roads, 7.78 miles; Fences, 10.55 rniles. 



ADMINISTRATION. By a director, responsible to the executive 

 committee of the New York Zoological Society. 



LIBRARY. The creation of a library of vertebrate zoolcrgy for the 

 use of both staff and public was seriously begun in 1910. 



PUBLICATIONS. The society issues an annual report, a quarterly 

 bulletin, and Zoologica at intervals. 



ATTENDANCE. Open to the pubilc daily from 9 (Nov. i-May i, 

 from 10) to a. half hour before surset. On Mondays and Thursdays 

 (except when these are holidays) admissions of 25 and 15 cents are 

 charged. At all other times admission is free. The attendance in 

 1909 was 1,614,953: from January i, 1900, to January i, 1910, there 

 was a total attendance of 10,913,528. 



THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY. (218 Fulton Street.) 



The society maintains small historical collections which it hopes 

 ultimately to develop into a museum. 



NIAGARA: 



NIAGARA UNIVERSITY. 



The university maintains the following museum collections for 

 teaching purposes: 60 anthropological specimens, 100 numismatic 

 specimens, a herbarium of 300 native plants, 400 minerals, 2000 fos- 

 sils, and 130 zoological specimens. 



POUGHKEEPSIE: 



VASSAR COLLEGE. 



STAFF. Curators, A. L. Treadwell (natural history), L. F. 

 Pilcher (art). 



ANTHROPOLOGY. 350 specimens of arrowheads, etc. from the 

 United States; the Ermine A. Smith collection of 200 ethnologic 

 specimens of the Zuni Indians; the Orton collection of 120 specimens 

 from South America, including valuable pottery, an ancient Peruvian 

 mummy, and a compressed human head from the Amazon; 100 other 

 archeologic and ethnologic specimens. 



ART. Oil paintings, water colors, Arundel prints, and an extensive 

 collection of casts. 



