THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK 



In the center of Baird Court is the large Sea Lion Pool, 

 where the animals are often seen engaged in spectacular 

 diving. At the north end of the Court, the Concourse and 

 Italian Gardens lead to the Concourse entrance and the 

 Botanical Garden. 



The Administration Building, at the northwest corner of 

 Baird Court, is the scientific, literary and artistic headquar- 

 ters of the Zoological Society and contains also Meeting 

 Rooms for its Members, a Library, Galleries and the Offices 

 of the Director and Staff. This building is not open to the 

 public, but the valuable and extensive collection of hoofs 

 and horns which is housed here may be seen by scientists, 

 sportsmen and others especially interested. 



This collection, intended finally to be an- impressive ex- 

 hibit of the world's horn-bearing animals, already contains 

 about 1 ,000 specimens, many of them of record size and all 

 especially fine and rare. The exhibit is arranged in two 

 series, occupying separate galleries: a zoological series, 

 intended to show the evolution and relationships and ar- 

 ranged by families and genera, and a geographical series, 

 designed to display the hoofed animal resources of the 

 various continents. 



The Reed-McMillin collection, donated to the society in 

 1907 by Emerson McMillin, is especially fine and contains 

 besides horned animals some interesting bear and walrus 

 heads. 



A completely mounted specimen of the exceedingly rare 

 Chinese takin presented by Mason Mitchell may also be 



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