88 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1014. 



Fill across valley, Ontario Road. — The administration has been 

 considerably embarrassed by the great quantity of earth and debris 

 that is washed down into the park from Ontario Road after every 

 heavy rain. The Commissioners of the District were authorized to 

 extend Adams Mill Road across a deep valley at the foot of Ontario 

 Road, and this has made necessary a very heavy fill of loose earth 

 that is readily excavated by rains. Attempts have been made to 

 arrest this flow, wdiich amounts to many tons of earth, but the means 

 at the disposal of the park are inadequate. 



Additions to the collection. — The park is greatly in need of certain 

 well-known animals to make its exhibit more complete. I do not 

 refer to those which are excessively rare, but to those that are common 

 objects of interests to the public. The anthropoid apes, including 

 the gorilla, the orang, the chimpanzee, and the gibbon, should be 

 shown; also the rhinoceros, the East Indian tapir, the giraffe, the 

 eland, the Beisa antelope, the koodoo, the East African buffalo, and 

 a series of mountain goats and sheep, including those from the 

 Western States. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Frank Baker, Superintendent. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 



Secretary the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 



