344 | Notes and News. Eas 
That the good work is spreading broadly is evidenced by the following 
list of Audubon Societies from which we have received circulars or other 
announcements of their formation, all but the first two organized within 
the present year. 5 
Massachusetts Audubon Society. Secretary, Miss Harriet E. Richards, 
Boston Society of Natural History, Berkeley St., Boston, Mass. 
Pennsylvania Audubon Society. Secretary, Mrs. Edward Robins, 114 
South 21st St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Audubon Society of the State of New York. Secretary, Miss Emma H. 
Lockwood, 243 West 75th St., New York City. 
New Hampshire Audubon Society. Secretary, Mrs. Franck W. Batch- 
elder, Myrtle Hill, Manchester, N. H. 
Illinois Audubon Society. Secretary, Miss Emily Rumsey, 313 Huron 
St., Chicago, IIL. 
Maine Audubon Socicty. Secretary, Miss Edith J. Boardman, Bruns- 
wick, Me. 
Audubon Society of the District of Columbia. Secretary, Mrs. John 
Dewhurst Patten, 3033 P St., Washington, D. C. 
Wisconsin Audubon Society. Secretary Miss Madge Anderson, 134 
Twentieth St., Milwaukee, Wis. 
New Jersey Audubon Society. Secretary, Miss Mary A. Mellick, 
Plainfield, N. J. 
Audubon Societies are also organizing in Colorado, Rhode Island, and 
other States. 
Tue New YorRK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY was incorporated, by special act 
of the Legislature, April 26, 1895, “ to establish and maintain a Zo6logical 
Garden in the City of New York, to encourage the study of Zodlogy, 
and to furnish instruction and recreation for the people”; and the 
Commissioners of the Sinking Fund were authorized by the same act to 
set apart lands for the uses of the Society. On March 24, 1897, the said 
Commissioners made an allotment of a tract of 261 acres in South Bronx 
Park to the Society, for the purposes of a Zodlogical Garden. The 
Society is to provide the original equipment of buildings and animals, 
and has begun to raise by subscription a fund of $250,000 for this purpose. 
The encouragement already received indicates that the means needed will 
be promptly raised. A vast amount of time and labor has been expended 
on the plans of the grounds and buildings, and they will be submitted to 
experts — landscape gardeners, field naturalists and zoOlogical garden 
experts — before final presentation to the Park Commissioners for adop- 
tion. It is expected that actual work on the grounds will soon begin, and 
in due time we may hope to see in Bronx Park one of the largest and best 
equipped zoological gardens in the world. The Society is fortunate in 
having secured Mr. William T. Hornaday as Director of the Gardens. The 
present office of the Society is 69 Wall St., New York City. 
