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completion of the steps and tanks at the conservatories per- 
mitted the building of the paths planned on the conservatory 
terrace and of those leading to it, including the resurfacing 
of those previously built. Parts of the path system between 
the valley of the herbaceous garden and the hemlock grove 
were completed, and the Telford foundations of other por- 
tions were laid. Path approaches were built to the public 
comfort station at the elevated railroad station, and to the 
power house. The path east of and paralleling the driveway 
east of the museum building was completed as far north as 
practicable before the building of the lake bridge. The 
Telford foundations for the path which will connect the 
Mosholu Parkway and Woodlawn Road approaches was 
mostly laid, as was also that for much of the path system on 
the fruticetum plain to connect these approaches and the path 
system south of the museum building with the long bridge; 
also a part of that on the north meadows to connect the 
upper bridge with the other bridges, buildings and entrances. 
The stone for the foundations of all these driveways and 
paths has been furnished by our own grading operations and 
more is being excavated during the winter from a quarry 
behind the museum building where necessary grading is 
going forward. 
Bridges 
The steel and stone upper bridge across the Bronx River 
at the northern end of the Garden near the Newell Avenue 
entrance, built under a contract of the Department of Parks, 
was satisfactorily completed in the spring; during the sum- 
mer, after the earth filling at its ends had well settled, the 
Telford foundation for the driveway was laid across it and 
the curbstones set in place. 
Work on the rubble stone five-arched long bridge, across 
the valley of the Bronx River north of the hemlock grove, 
has been prosecuted throughout the season under a contract 
of the Department of Parks, and all but the middle arch has 
been completed; this work should be finished by June or 
July; all the rubble stone used in this structure has been fur- 
