ZOOLOGICAI. SOCIETY BULLETIN 



1137 



of June at 2:30 o'clock P. ^L. and tliat it be 

 preceded bj- luncheon at the Park. 



Vice-President. — At the Spring Meeting- of 

 the Board of Managers, May 21. 1911, Mr. 

 Madison Grant was unanimously elected Vice- 

 President to fill tlie vacancy caused by the 

 death of Mr. John L. Cadwalader. 



Cndxcalader Animal Fund. — Lender the Will 

 of the late John L. Cadwalader a bequest of 

 $20,000 has been left to the Society, to be held 

 as a fund, the income of which shall be used 

 for tiie purchase of animals for the Park. As 

 soon as this money is received it will be cred- 

 ited to an account to be known as the "Cad- 

 walader Animal Fund. " and the income thereof 

 will be annually devoted to the purchase of ani- 

 mals. 



Carneqie Pension Fund. — A check for -flOO,- 

 000. has been received from Mr. Carnegie. 

 The plan for our pension system has been sub- 

 mitted to an actuary, and a Pension Board ap- 

 pointed, consisting of the following: 



George C. Clark. Chairman; I>ewis R. Mor- 

 ris, H. Casimir deRham, M'illiam B. Osgood 

 Field, Percy R. Pyne, Treasurer, re]3resenting 

 the Board of Managers; H. R. Mitchell, Ray- 

 mond L. Ditmars, H. W. Merkel, representing 

 the emjjloyees at the Zoological Park, and Ray- 

 mond S. Osburn. representing the emjjloyees at 

 the Aquarium. 



The jjlan provides on a moderate scale for 

 ]iensions for tlie emiiloyees of the Society at 

 both the Park and Aquarium, and is based on a 

 contribution of 2 per cent, of their salaries 

 from emjiloyees. and a contribution of ^ per 

 cent, of salaries from the Society. There is an 

 annual balance of over $4,000 which will have 

 to be cliarged against the General Income Ac- 

 count, and will render an increase in the en- 

 dowment fund during 1911, an absolute neces- 

 sity. With this end in view an effort will be 

 made by the Executive Committee in the fall to 

 increase the total endowment of the Socictv 

 from .$320,000 to .$500,000. 



ELK OF THE YELLOWSTONE PARK; 



CENSUS OF THE NORTHERN HERD. 

 Between April 11 and May 2, 191 K under 

 the direction of the superintendent of the Yel- 

 lowstone Park, a careful census was taken of 

 the elk in the so-called "northern herd" of the 

 Park. The result of the enumeration was as 

 follows : 

 Total number counted iniide of the Park 



along the northern border 32,209 



Number observed outside of the Park, in 

 the Gallatin National Forest, belong- 

 ing to Park herd 3,000 



Total number actually belonging to the 



Park herd ' ' ^ 35,209 



Total number shipped from the Park 



during the past winter 90 



35,308 

 Total number in Park herd as reported 



Mav 8, 1913 32,229 



Increase in the herd during the ye.ir 3,079 



Numbers given are from actual count only. 

 The men engaged are fairlj- certain that they 

 missed one herd of about 1 ,500, and another 

 of about 600, passing them during a storm. 

 They reported only the actual count. 



Only 30 dead elk were found. Elk and other 

 game was never known to be in better condi- 

 tion, with so few dead ones in the spring. 



Blacktailed deer show a particularly satis- 

 factory gain, 892 having been counted while 

 counting elk — more than have been known be- 

 fore for several years. 



Yeltoicstone Park, Jl'i/o., Mai/ 4. lUlJ,. 



The Case of Gunda. — As we go to ])ress, the 

 fate of Gunda, our large Indian elephant, is 

 being pressed toward the point of deadly action, 

 by the New York Times and ])ersons who have 

 been aroused by that newspajier. It is quite 

 ])ossible that po)5ular clamor, based on insuffi- 

 cient information, will eventually cause Gunda 

 to be shot to death long before such a fate be- 

 comes really necessary, or justifiable. 



NEW MEMBERS. 

 May 1, 1911, TO Jri.v 1, 191 1 



LIFE :mi:.'M1ji:i{s. 



Havemeyer, T. A. 

 Plielps, Capt. John .1. 



AXXIAI 



Bissell, Clinton T. 

 Holton, William H. 

 Brede, John 

 Brinekerhoff, .\. G. 

 Brown, Ricfiard E. 

 Cleveland, Miss Mal;elH. 

 Dillon, W. B. 

 Dows, David 

 Fox, l.oui.s V. 

 Gass, Frank 

 CJoldman, Albert 

 CJinild, Dr. Frederic S. 

 Graves, J. P. 

 Hubbard Walter C. 



I'ierrepont, Seth I,ow 

 Tliayer, Mrs. E. R. 



MEMBEllS. 



Kurznian, Charles C. 

 Kuttroff, Frederick 

 .Marsliall, ,\. W. W. 

 Miller, Mrs. Cvnis C. 

 Mole, A. B. 



Xoniian. Mrs. Bradford 

 Xorton, Cliarlos I). 

 l{i|)pe. .Mrs. K. ,J. 

 Ste])hens, Hoderick 

 Stone, Miss Ellen ,1. 

 Todd, Walter B. 

 Varinn, Wilbur L. 

 Wagstiiff. Mrs. .Vlfred 

 Work, Bertram G. 



