NEWS BULLETIN OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



|f2cto£ bulletin 



OF THE 



New York Zoological Society 



Edited by the Director. 

 Published at the Office of the Society, 11 Wall St., New York City. 



No. 5 July, 19°' 



Subscription price, 50 cents for four numbers, in advance. 



Single numbers, 15 cents. 



©fficrre of tbr §ocirtp. 

 presibent : 



HON. LHVI P. MORTON. 



4fyrcutitoc Committer : 



Levi P. Morton, ex-qfficio, John S. Barnes, 



Henry F. Osborn, Chairman, Philip Schi/yler, 



John L. Cadwalader, Counsel, Madison Grant, 



Charles T. Barney, W. W. Niles. 



>©cnctal ifftfficcts : 



Secretary, Madison Grant, 11 Wall Street. 

 Treasurer, Charles T. Barney, (ifi Broadway. 

 Director, William T. Hornaday, Zoological Park. 



■SBoarb of JH&anaocrs : 



BXOFFICIO, 



The Mayor 0/ the City of New York, Hon. Robert A. Van Wyck, 

 The President 0/ the Deft 0/ Parks, Hon. George C. Clausen. 



Class of ieot. 



F. Augustus Schermerhorn, 

 A. Newbold Morris, 

 Charles E. Whitehead, 

 J. Hampden Kobb, 

 Charles A. Peabody, Jr., 

 Percy K. l'yne, 

 George B. Grinnell, 

 Jacob H. SchilT, 

 Edward J. Berwitid, 

 William C. Whitney, 

 John D. Crimniins, 

 George C. Clark. 



Class of 1002. Class of 1003. 



Henry F. Osborn, 

 Henry W. Poor, 

 Charles T. Barney, 

 Charles F. Dietrich, 

 L. V. F. Randolph, 

 William C. Church, 

 Frank M. Chapman, 

 Lispenard Stewart, 

 Joseph Stickney, 

 H. Casimir De Rh.'im, 

 George Crocker, 

 Hugh D, Auchincloss. 



Levi P. Morton, 

 Andrew Carnegie, 

 Morris K. Jesup, 

 John L. Cadwalader, 

 Philip Schuyler, 

 John S. Barnes, 

 Madison Grant, 

 William White Niles, 

 Samuel Thome, 

 Henry A. C. Taylor. 

 Hugh J. Chisholm, 

 Win. D. Sloane. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



It requires a great membership as well as 

 a great many animals to make a fine Zoological 

 Park. Even the finest of raw materials require 

 workmen and the sinews of war for the pro- 

 duction of the finished product. 



In creating a Zoological Park the first and 

 most important requisite is public support in 

 the form of membership. 



Thus far the New York Zoological Society 

 has carried out its programme without a single 

 long delay. Regarding the Society's member- 

 ship, there is but one thing to be regretted — 

 it is still far below 3.000. Of Annual Members 

 there are 852, and the other sustaining mem- 

 bers of all classes bring the total active list up 

 to 1,061 persons. 



But for one thing this could be considered 



a high figure. If the Zoological Park and the 

 general work of the Society is to be developed 

 on the broad and liberal lines laid down five 

 years ago — and faithfully followed up to this 

 date — a membership of 3,000 sustaining mem- 

 bers is an absolute necessity. 



The Society is pledged to provide all the 

 animal collections of the Zoological Park, and 

 ere long this will mean an annual expenditure 

 of not less than $20,000. An Administration 

 Building, with a fine library, picture gallery, 

 and reception rooms open to members must 

 be provided by the Society for the prosecutimi 

 of its scientific work in the Park. The Society 

 desires to issue, from time to time, important 

 natural history publications for the special 

 benefit of its members. It also wishes to pro- 

 mote research in certain lines, and enter more 

 actively into the business of affording better 

 legal protection to our native animals. 



Two thousand new annual members, con- 

 tributing $10 per year, are needed. As a source 

 of strength, the importance of the Annual 

 Member can hardly be overestimated. With 

 3,000 men and women, contributing regularly 

 $30,000 per year, every object that the Society 

 is now planning can be accomplished. The 

 greater the number of members, the greater 

 will be the advantages of membership to each. 

 Because of all this, the friends of the Society 

 are again invited to interest their friends to 

 become Annual Members without delay. Ap- 

 plications may be sent direct to the Secretary, 

 Madison Grant, Esq., 11 Wall Street, or 

 handed in at the Director's Office in the Ser- 

 vice Building of the Zoological Park. 



THE NEWS BULLETIN. 



Four years ago, when the idea of a news 

 bulletin for the Zoological Society took final 

 shape, it was an innovation and an experiment. 

 Theretofore nearly every scientific society, so 

 far as known, had adhered to the time-honored 



