NEWS BULLETIN OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



mews Bulletin 



OF THE 



flew Woxk Zoolooical Society 



published at the 



New York Zoological Park, 183d Street and Southern Boulevard, 

 new york city. 



©fficers of tbe Society 



Ipresioent: 



HON. LEVI P. MORTON. 



Bjecutfve Committee : 



Levi P. Morton, ex-officio, 

 Henry F. Osborn, Chairman, 

 John L. Cadwalader, Counsel, 

 Charles T. Barney, 



John S. Barnes, 

 Philip Schuyler, 

 Madison Grant, 

 W. W. Niles, Jr. 



©eneral ©fficers: 



Secretary, Madison Grant, 11 Wall Street. 

 Treasurer, L. V. F. Randolph, 61 William Street. 

 Director, William T. Hornaday, Zoological Park. 



JSoauo of /Ifcanagers : 



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

 Hx-ojficw, j The p residmt f the De p t f p ar k s , Hon. George C. Clausen. 



Cl-ASS OF 1901. 



F. Augustus Schermerhorn. 

 A. Newbold Morris, 

 Charles K. Whitehead, 

 J. Hampden Robb, 

 Charles A. Peabodv, Jr. 

 Percy R. Pyne, 

 George B. Grinnell, 

 Jacob H. Schiff, 

 Edward J. Berwind, 

 William C. Whitney, 

 John D. Crimmins, 

 George C. Clark. 



CLASS OF 1902. 



Henry F. Osborn, 

 Henry W. Poor, 

 Charles T. Barney, 

 Oswald Ottendorfer, 

 L. V. F. Randolph, 

 William C. Church, 

 Frank M. Chapman, 

 Lispenard Stewart, 

 Joseph Stickney, 

 H.Casimir De Rham, 

 George Crocker, 

 Hugh D. Auchinci.oss. 



CL4SS OF 1903. 



Levi P. Morton, 

 Andrew Carnegie, 

 Morris K. Jesup, 

 John L. Cadwalader, 

 Philip Schuyler, 

 John S. Barnes. 

 Madison Grant, 

 William White Niles, 

 Samuel Thorne, 

 Henry A. C. Taylor, 

 Hugh J. Chisholm, 

 Wm. D. Si.oane. 



A CALL FOR NEW MEMBERS. 



With the means at our command, we have done our utmost 

 to establish a Zoological Society which will cover a wide field 

 of usefulness, and a Zoological Park of which you may be 

 proud. The latter is now open, on a modest basis to be sure, 

 but it is sufficient to serve as an object lesson regarding our 

 aspirations, and an index for the future. Visit it, and inspect 

 it, as soon as possible ; then ask yourself these questions : 



Is this Park a great boon to the toiling and pent-up mill- 

 ions of Greater New York ? 



Is it an institution of permanent value to all lovers of ani- 

 mated nature, to students, writers, artists, sculptors and zo- 

 ologists generally ? 



Is it a good place for New York's grand army of chil- 

 dren? 



Will it presently rank high among other institutions of its 

 kind throughout the world ? 



Will it be a credit to Greater New York, and the nation ? 



From this time henceforth, the Park must speak for itself. 

 To be sure, it is yet in a new and unfinished state, but enough 

 has been done to show the general scope of the Society's 

 scheme. Beyond question, it is not going to be a small or 

 cheap affair. 



If you answer the above questions in the affirmative, then 

 pray consider this: Entirely aside from the funds that will 

 be furnished by the city, the Zoological Society must expend 

 annually, of its ozvn funds, about $30,000! This is needed 

 for the purchase of animals, the issue of publications, for 

 lectures, for scientific work, the promotion of animal paint- 

 ing and sculpture, for the library and picture gallery, for the 

 preservation of our native animals, and many other purposes. 



The Society is pledged to provide all the living animals, and 

 this alone means a heavy annual expenditure. 



In all this work, the Zoological Society asks your active 

 and continuous support. It invites you to become a mem- 

 ber, immediately, in whatever class you may prefer, and also 

 to interest your relatives and friends. Think what power for 

 the good of all concerned could be wielded by 3,000 annual 

 members, paying $30,000 as annual dues ! On such a basis, 

 the benefits to the individual member would soon be worth 

 double the amount of his annual clues of $10. The greater 

 the membership, the greater the benefit to members. 



But the men and women who build up great national insti- 

 tutions of science, art, and learning, are not inclined to pause 

 and ask, " What is there in this for me ? " Americans are no 

 more mercenary, nor more fond of wealth, than are the people 

 of other nations ; and no people on earth are more ready to 

 give, and give handsomely, to every good object, than are 

 the people of New York. 



With the Zoological Society, this is a critical moment. The 

 Executive Committee has been very heavily burdened, not 

 only in planning for Park work, but in the difficult task of 

 soliciting subscriptions for building operations. At this mo- 

 ment it needs the encouragement that the incoming of 2,000 

 new annual members would give. Leaving out of con- 

 sideration the satisfaction which every public-spirited man 

 feels in aiding a noble cause, will not the privileges of mem- 

 bership in the Zoological Society be worth to you and your 

 family more than ten dollars per year? If you answer this 

 question in the affirmative, please communicate with Madison 

 Grant, general secretary, 11 Wall Street, and name the class 

 of membership to which you desire to be elected. 



If you are already a member, pray send in the application 

 of at least one other person. IV. T. H. 



THE OPENING OF THE PARK. 



After twenty years of unnecessary waiting, New York at 

 last possesses an institution for the exhibition of live animals, 

 founded on a scale commensurate with the dignity of a city 

 of the first rank. During the entire history of this city down 

 to 1895, not one serious effort, not one move worthy of men- 

 tion, was made in behalf of the establishment of a zoological 

 garden or park worthy of this great and wealthy city. 



Forty years ago, when Central Park was laid out, the land- 

 scape architects made the mistake of providing five acres in 

 the southeastern corner of that great pleasure ground for a 

 menagerie. That would have answered very well for a small 

 town, but never for one moment was it adequate or suitable 

 for the metropolis of the Western Hemisphere. The menag- 

 erie thus established has, beyond doubt, been the chief fac- 

 tor — though quite innocently, so far as its sponsors and sup- 

 porters were concerned — in postponing the creation in New 

 York of a proper zoological garden or park while scores of 

 smaller cities broke ground and built up institutions of great 

 beauty and usefulness. While New York has slept on her 

 rights, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Han- 

 over, Hamburg, Frankfort, Cologne, Manchester, Copen- 

 hagen, Calcutta, and even Saigon — hidden in the jungles of 

 Cochin China — have all made for themselves zoological gar- 

 dens worthy of the name. 



We speak lightly of " the effete monarchies of Europe," but 

 America has deliberately permitted even the very smallest of 

 them to lead her in zoological garden development. And 

 this, too, despite the fact that the vertebrate fauna of North 

 America is so rich and varied. In zoological garden work, 

 America has too long occupied a rear rank. The richest and 

 most populous city, the literary, scientific and financial centre 

 of North America, is expected to set an example for other 

 cities. 



At last the spell has been broken ; and to-day, though very 

 incomplete, the Zoological Park of Greater New York is an 



