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The lectures will be illustrated by lantern slides and other 
material. They will close in time for auditors to take the 5:32 
train from the Bronx Park Railway Station, arriving at the Grand 
Central at 6:02 
The Museum Daiing is reached by the Harlem Division, N. 
. C. R. R., Bronx Park Station, by trolley cars to Bedford 
Parle and by ee Railway, Third Avenue to Bronx Park 
Terminal, 
THE FOUNTAIN IN Say OF THE MUSEUM 
BUIL G. 
In the original general plan of the Garden, approved by the 
Board of Managers and by the Commissioners of Public Parks 
in 1897, provision was made for the location of a fountain imme- 
diately in front of the Museum Building. Consideration of plans 
for this fountain was taken up by the Board of Managers shortly 
after the completion of the Museum Building and its approaches 
in 1899, and the marble basins, whose position had been estab- 
lished by the general plan in 1897, were constructed at the time 
that the path approaches and marble seats, garden fountain and 
drinking fountain were built on the driveway, leaving only the 
character of the bronze fountain itself to be determined, and its 
construction secured. 
A competition of sculptors was arranged in 1g00, but none of 
the designs secured at that time were acceptable to the Board. 
Subsequently two other designs were obtained from individual 
sculptors, neither of which was, however, accepte 
the managers voted to request the codperation of the National 
Sculpture Society in the work of obtaining a suitable model, and 
in the fall of that year this Society appointed a committee con- 
sisting of Messrs. Karl Bitter, Daniel C. French and Chas. C. 
Haight, to report a plan of competition for the proposed foun- 
tain; this plan of competition was drawn up by this committee, 
and apptoved by a committee of the Board of Managers who 
had meanwhile been appointed to take charge of the matter. A 
printed program and rules for this competition was issued Jan- 
