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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
BULLETIN 
THE PANDA 
A recent addition to the Society's collections is this little creature from Regent’s Park, London. 
very docile. 
It was born in captivity and is 
He is as unique as any Teddy-bear, and toy makers might well use him as a model. 
Photographed by Elwin R. Sanborn 
Dakota Wars on Ropents.—A rigid cam- 
paign for the extermination of the destructive 
prairie dog from many western South Dakota 
counties is being carried on with a view to turn- 
ing thousands of acres which in past years has 
shown very little growth of green into fertile 
pastures and cultivated land. 
Crews. of men with regular camping outfits 
take the field and work half a township thor- 
oughly in search of these rodents. Poisoned 
bait is spread, and after passing on to the other 
half of the township a rear guard again surveys 
the ground first covered. If there is need this 
territory is gone over a second time. Many such 
York Evening 
crews are now at work.—New 
Sun. 
ADDITIONS To THE Society's Funps: By the 
will of the late John Leyden, the Society is 
named as his beneficiary, and the sum of $184.75 
has been sent to the Chairman of the Executive 
Committee by the Metropolitan Life Insurance 
Company of New York. There will be a further 
deposit of about the same sum from the Leyden 
Estate, later on. 
Leyden was an energetic and honorable em- 
ployee in the Park for many years, and when 
old age had weakened his activities the Society 
provided for him a pension sufficient to enable 
him to pass his last years in peace and comfort. 
Through the good offices of the Society, he was 
provided a very comfortable home with the Little 
Sisters of the Poor, where he at length passed 
away. 
To the very end of his.days he was warm in 
his praises of the kindly manner in which the 
Society had interested itself in his behalf. 
It is believed that the Executive Committee 
will apply this money to the Pension Fund. 
Tue Sacre Bequest.—The first payment of 
the bequest of the late Mrs. Russell Sage to the 
Endowment Fund, $489,073.83 has been re- 
ceived. The entire amount of this bequest is as 
yet undetermined, but it is by far the largest 
sum that has been bequeathed by any individual 
to the Society. 
