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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 
ELWIN R. SANBORN, EpiTor. 
Departments : 
MAMMAL BIRD 
W. T. HorRNADAY, Sc. D. C, WILLIAM BEEBE. 
AQUARIUM REPTILE 
C. H. TOWNSEND, Sc. D. RAYMOND L. DITMARS. 
Published Bi-Monthly at the Office of the Society, 
11 Wall Street, New York City. 
Single Numbers, 10 Cents ; Yearly, 70 Cents. 
MAILED FREE TO MEMBERS. 
Copyright, 1910, by the New York Zoological Society. 
Numer 39 MAY, 1910 
Officers of the Society. 
President - 
HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN. 
Executive Committee - 
MADISON GRANT, Chairman, 
SAMUEL THORNE, WILLIAM WHITE NILEs, 
LEVI P. Morton, Wm. PIERSON HAMILTON 
HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN, Ex-Officio. 
General Officers - 
Secretary, MADISON GRANT, 11 WALL STREET. 
Treasurer, PERCY R. PYNE, 30 PINE STREET. 
Director, WILLIAM T. HORNADAY, D., Zc 
Director of the Aquarium, CHARLES H, Tow 
JOHN S. BARNES, 
Percy R. PYNE, 
SAL PARK. 
Sc. D., BATTERY PARK. 
Board of Managers - 
Ex-Officio 
The Mayor of the City of New York - 
The President of the Department of Parks, 
Glass of 1911. Glass of 1912. 
Henry F.. Osborn, Levi P. Morton, F. Augustus Schermerhorn, 
William C. Church, Andrew Carnegie, Percy R. Pyne, 
Lispenard Stewart, John L. Cadwalader, George B. Grinnell, 
H. Casimir De Rham, John S. Barnes, Jacob H. Schiff, 
Hugh D. Auchincloss, Madison Grant, George C. Clark, 
Charles F. Dieterich, William White Niles, Cleveland H. Dodge, 
James J. Hill, Samuei Thorne, C. Ledyard Blair, 
George I’. Baker, Henry A. C. Taylor, Nelson Robinson, 
Grant B. Schley, Hugh J. Chisholm, Frederick G. Bourne, 
James W. Barney, Frank K. Sturgis, W. Austin Wadsworth. 
Wm. PiersonHamilton, George J. Gould, Emerson McMillin, 
Robert S. Brewster Ogden Mills Anthony R. Kuser 
Officers of the Zoological Park : 
W. T. HorRNADAY, Sc. D., Director. 
H. R. MircHELL - - - - Chief Clerk and Disbursing Officer. 
RAYMOND L. DITMARS Curator of Reptiles. 
C. WILLIAM BEEBE Curator of Birds. 
W. Rerp Biarr, D.V.S. Veterinarian and Pathologist. 
H. W. MERKEL = Chief Forester and Constructor. 
G. M. BEERBOWER Civil Engineer. 
W. I. MircHELL Office Assistant. 
ELWIN R. SANBORN Editor and Photographer. 
Officers of the Aquarium 
CHARLES H. TOWNSEND, Sc.D., Director. 
- - - - In Charge of Collections. 
Hon. WILLIAM J. GAYNOR 
Hon. CHARLES B. STOVER 
Glass of 1913. 
W. I. DENYSE 
ANOTHER DELAY. 
The vicissitudes of the Administration Build- 
ing continue to be prolonged. At present it is 
the furniture. 
It was found that the necessary furniture, 
rugs and window draperies could be purchased 
only by a public letting to the lowest bidder. 
After most painstaking consideration of every 
point involved, an elaborate series of designs 
and specifications was prepared and submitted 
to the Park Department. With all possible dis- 
patch a contract was advertised, and bids were 
opened on April 14. Then a firm that failed to 
put in a bid, cheerfully filed a protest because 
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the specifications were not, in one small detail, 
worded to suit it; as a result, the Park Board 
threw out all the bids, thus making it necessary 
to re-advertise. In time—as compared with 
eternity,—we hope to succeed in getting a con- 
tract for our furniture actually awarded. After 
that Rubicon has been crossed, the goods will be 
expected in sixty days; but when they will be 
received, no one can say. 
At present only one thing is certain: we will 
not secure our household goods, nor actually oe- 
cupy our new offices, before autumn. 
ENDOWMENT FUND. 
The raising of the Endowment Fund is pro- 
gressing substantially. Of the six $25,000 sub- 
scriptions needed, three have been received; of 
the ten $10,000 subseriptions needed, four have 
been received; of the twenty $5,000 subserip- 
tions needed, seventeen have been received, mak- 
ing a total of $200,000. 
At least $250,000 must be raised before July 
1, 1910, in order to comply with the conditions 
upon which some of the foregoing subseriptions 
have been made. It is hoped that the members 
of the Society will aid the Executive Commit- 
tee in securing the balance needed. 
The following contributions have been either 
paid into the Treasury, or else subscribed in 
some cases conditionally upon raising $250,000 
prior to July 1, 1910:— 
S VUE ees OTe eee ea ee $25,000 
Jacobean chit ae a nn ee 25,000 
George she B alc r esas te eee 25,000 
Est. Phoebe Anna Thorne.................... 10,000 
Cleveland SE Dod cepa 10,000 
Ogden Mills*}st: 2a =e eee 10,000 
sevauh.. Mortont ae. eyes eee 10,000 
Bdwardseblaniones sass naan 5,000 
AndnewaCanne cic ye enn 5,000 
Missi emanliyaailer ey Ora 5,000 
Samuel P. Avery 5,000 
Frank K. Sturgis... 5,000 
John L. Cadwalader —_... - 5 5,000 
Perey: JR. uPiy nesses 5,000 
Geovrer Cai Clear keee ee 5,000 
GeorceaWorkerkins == 5,000 
IEiSpenan dis tevye: meee eee 5,000 
A SE rien dae: ea ee eee ne 5,000 
Robert sae brewster sae 5,000 
euro hi ee Chis ho) rises 5,000 
ieniyae Ae Ca any ores eee eee 5,000 
Georme Ja Goul diene eee 5,000 
John D. Archbold 5,000 
Frederick G. Bourne 5,000 
F. Augustus Schermerhorn = 1,000 
Hist. Marguerite Carter... 100 
