
AMATEUR PHOTO BY G. E. STONEBRIDGE. 
BUFFALO HOUSE, 80 FEET LONG AND SEMI-CIRCULAR. 
studied and perfected in advance by quali- 
fied experts that not a single line has been 
changed by the park department. 
At this point it is interesting to note 
what has been done by the city in fur- 
therance of this truly great enterprise. It 
for maintenance. Under this 
coopera- 
tion the 2 corporations have filled 
those 2 institutions with collections 
of priceless value and on 5 days of each 
week their halls are thronged with visitors, 
admitted free. At the Battery, the city 


THE ELK HOUSE—PRESENT OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR AND HIS STAFF. 
is well that all Americans should know 
how liberally New York treats both sci- 
ence and art. The city has spent and is 
spending millions of dollars in the erec- 
tion of substantial buildings of cut stone for 
the American Museum of Natural His- 
tory and the Metropolitan Museum of 
Art. To each it furnishes annually $95,000 
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maintains a fine aquarium, also free to the 
public, and in the Northern end of Bronx 
Park, a free botanical garden of 250 acres 
is taking shape. 
For the preparation of the grounds of 
tne Zoological Park—with walks, roads, 
sewers, water, ponds, and fences—the 
city has appropriated $125,000. For the 
