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SCIENCE. 



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sessions will be held. There are in the 

 neighborhood of the University numerous 

 good boarding houses, now empty owing to 

 the absence of students during vacation. 

 The situation of the University with pleas- 

 ant grounds overlooking the Hudson river, 

 promises reasonable freedom from heat and 

 dust, and ample accommodation both for 

 social intercourse and scientific work. 



The Association will be welcomed to 

 Columbia University by President Low, 

 long a member, at eleven o'clock on the 

 morning of Monday, June 25th, and after 

 brief addresses by the retiring president, 

 Mr. G. K. Gilbert and the president-elect 

 Professor E. S. Woodward, the members 

 will separate for the organization of the 

 Sections. On Monday afternoon five of the 

 vice-presidents. Professor Asaph Hall, Jr., 

 Professor Ernest Merritt, Professor Jas. 

 Lewis Howe, Professor J. F. Kemp and 

 Professor William Trelease, will give their 

 addresses, the others being postponed until 

 next year. President Gilbert will give his 

 address at the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History on the evening of June 26th. 

 Various scientific excursions have been 

 arranged by the different sections, which 

 will be part of their scientific work. A^ 

 m.eeting in liew York City under the con- 

 ditions described and at the end of June is 

 certainly an experiment worth making, and 

 there is every reason to believe that it will 

 be successful. 



PROGRESS OF THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL 

 PARK. 



Among the attractive features of the com- 

 ing meeting of the American Association in 

 New York are the proposed visits to the 

 Botanical Garden and the Zoological Park. 

 These sister institutions are developing 

 rapidly in the northern and southern por- 

 tions of Bronx Park and both deserve care- 

 ful study, even in their present unfinished 

 condition. Members of the Association de- 



siring to see both parks on the same day 

 will do well to take a Harlem train direct 

 to Bedford Park, walk through the Botan- 

 ical Garden and buildings eastward to the 

 Bronx river, then southward along the line 

 of the river to the Boston road entrance of 

 the Zoological Park to the northwestern en- 

 trance, returning to New York by the Ford- 

 ham station of the Harlem railroad. Mem- 

 bers desiring especially to see the Zoolog- 

 ical Park should take the train from 42d 

 street or 125th street to Fordham. 



The following extracts from the Fourth 

 Annual report recently issued by the Zo- 

 ological Society will give some idea of the 

 present state of development of this project. 

 The Zoological Park was formally opened to 

 the public on November 8, 1899 ; Professor 

 Osborn delivered the address of welcome on 

 behalf of the Society and the Park was for- 

 mally accepted by Comptroller Coler. Dur- 

 ing the inclement months of November and 

 December it was visited by 90,000 people; 

 the present attendance on holidays and 

 Sundays averages between 15,000 and 17,- 

 000; the attendance since January 1st is 

 294,000. The Park is thus a thoroughly 

 popular institution. The membership has 

 risen to over 850 and is slowly increasing ; 

 a vigorous attempt is being made to raise 

 the membership to 3000, and thus provide 

 an income which will constantly renew the 

 supply of animals and enable the Society to 

 erect a building every other year. 



Up to the present time $10,000 has been 

 expended in the purchase of animals and 

 about $200,000 in the construction of build- 

 ings and other installations. The following 

 ranges and installations are now complete : 



Mule Deer Eange, Fallow Deer Range 

 and House, Axis Deer Range and House, 

 Ducks' Aviary, Flying Cage, Aquatic Birds' 

 House, Black-tail Deer Range, Virginia 

 Deer Range, Red Deer Range and House, 

 Moose Range and House, Wapiti Range 

 and House, Wolf Dens, Fox Dens, Aquatic 



