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The material afforded by deaths among the collection has 
reached a widely extending field of usefulness. Those 
specimens valuable for purposes of comparative anatomy 
or taxonomy have been distributed among institutions and 
specialists in those branches, while many, less valuable, 
have been made useful to students, in dissection and for 
anatomical preparations. In some cases they have been 
exchanged for living specimens. 
To our Society, which was almost the pioneer in this 
country, it should be gratifying to note the widely increased 
appreciation of such collections in their proper sphere, as 
means to the prosecution of scientific work, as is indicated 
above, and as adjuncts to the development of art, as is 
shown by the growing use of the Garden by artists and art 
students. In the spread of this tendency, which has already 
developed into projects, now more or less matured, for the 
establishment of zoological gardens in several of the larger 
cities in the East, it can hardly be doubted that our own in- 
stitution has played an important part. 
Respectfully, 
ARTHUR ERWIN BROWN, 
General Superintendent. 
Zoological Garden, March 1st, 1889. 
