ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLET! X 



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of mail)' newspapers published in other cities 

 in whose cokimns the progress of the New 

 York Zoological Park has been followed. 



Regarding our name and place, the world 

 outside of New York will take its cue from 

 this city. If we arc to be dubbed Bronx Park 

 Zoo the world will hold us cheaply, at a 

 Bronx-Zoo estimate, to the end of time; and 

 to this fact the attention of all members of 

 the Zoological Society is specially invited. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



It requires a great membership as well as a 

 great many animals to make a fine Zoological 

 Park. Even the finest of raw materials require 

 workmen and the sinews of war for the pro- 

 duction of the finished product. 



In creating a Zoological Park the first and 

 most important requisite is public support in 

 the form of membership. 



Thus far the Xcw York Zoological Society 

 has carried out its programme without a single 

 long delay. Regarding the Society's member- 

 ship, there is but one thing to be done — name- 

 ly, to raise it to 3,000. Of .\nnual Members 

 there are 852, and the other sustaining mem- 

 bers of all classes bring the total active list up 

 to 1,061 persons. 



P>ut for one thing this could be considered 

 a high figure. If the Zoological Park and the 

 general work of the Society is to be developed 

 on the broad and liberal lines laid down five 

 years ago — and faithfully followed up to this 

 date — a membership of 3.000 sustaining mem- 

 bers is an absolute necessity. 



The Society is pledged to provide all the 

 animal collections of the Zoological Park, and 

 ere long this will mean an annual expenditure 

 of not less than $20,000. An Administration 

 Building, with a fine library, picture gallery, 

 and reception rooms 0])en to members must 

 be provided by the Society for the prosecution 

 of its scientific work in the Park. The Societv 

 desires to issue, from time to time, im]iortant 

 natural history publications for the special 

 benefit of its members. It also wishes to pro- 

 mote research in certain lines, and enter more 

 actively into the business of affording better 

 legal protection to our native animals. 



Two thousand new annual members, con- 

 tributing $10 jier year, are needed. As a source 

 of strength, the importance of the Annual 

 Member can hardly be overestimated. W'ith 

 3,000 men and women, contributing regularly 

 $30,000 per year, every object that the Society 

 is now planning can be accomplished. The 



greater the number of members, the greater 

 will be the advantages of membership to each. 

 Because of all this, the friends of the Society 

 are again invited to interest their friends to 

 become .Annual Members without delay. Ap- 

 plications may be sent direct to the Secretary, 

 Madison Grant, 1 1 Wall Street, or handed in 

 at the Director's Office in the Service Build- 

 ing of the Zoological Park. 



AN OBJECT LESSON. 



In response to our appeal in the previous 

 Bui.r.KTi.v in behalf of a Library Fund, Miss 

 Caroline Phelps Stokes kindly forwarded her 

 check for $300, with the request that its ex- 

 penditure should be chiefly for books whicli 

 might be of practical use to the Department 

 of Birds. Acting on the principle that the 

 most important gaps should be first filled, the 

 following works were jnirchased with this gift 

 and added to our library nucleus : 



Parrots in Captivity (Cjreene). 



Birds of British India. 



Birds of the Japanese Empire (Seebohm). 



Plovers and Sandpipers (Seebohm). 



Birds of Celebes. 



Book of Canaries and Cage-birds. 



History of Birds of New Zealand, 2 vols. (HuUer). 



Birds of India, 3 vols. (Jerdon). 



Illustrated Manual of British Birds (Saunders). 



Handbook of ISirds of Australia, 2 vols. (Gould). 



.Argentine Ornithology, 2 vols. f.Sclaler). 



H-indbook of Birds of British Burmah, 2 vols. (Oates). 



Review of Recent -Xttenipts to Classify Birds (Sharpe). 



Birds of the West Indies (Cory). 



Cambridge Natural llistorv, "Birds." 



Manual of the Birds of New Zealand (Buller). 



L'ntersuchungen zur Morphologic und Systematik d. 



\ ogel ( Kiirbringer). 

 Birds of Siberia (.Seebohm). 

 British Cage-birds (Wallace). 

 Veterinary Pathology (Kricdbergcr and Frbhner). 

 Die Krankheiten des Hausgeflurgels (Zurn). 



It takes a mountain of books to cover the 

 vertebrate fauna of the world. Who will be 

 next to help along the library ? There are 

 many costly mammal books that are sorely 

 needed at this time. 



RKPORT ON IIIK DKSTRL'CTION OK BIRDS 

 AND .M.\MM.\I.S. 



The numerous reijuesls from teachers and game pro- 

 tectors for copies of Mr. Ilornaday's Report on the De- 

 struction of our Hirds and Mammals, as reprinted from the 

 Second .Annual Report of the Zoological Society, has m.ide 

 necessary the printing of a new edition of three thousand 

 copies. The det.ailed statements of the various observers 

 have been omitted. Copies will be furnished to teachers 

 and to all other persons desiring to make use of this docu- 

 ment in promoting the better protection of our birds and 

 mammals, upon receipt of a 2-cent stamp for each copy de- 

 sired. Address the Director of the Zoological Park. 



