ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
95 
CARD FILES OF NEGATIVES 
Left: Numerical index of published negatives. 
Right: Alphabetical index of negatives. 
Photograph by Elwin Ii. Sanborn. 
On the whole, the Zoological Society has the 
satisfaction not merely of believing, but of 
knowing, that its efforts in photography in the 
interest of science and education are fully ap- 
p r e c i a t e d by the 
American people. 
The idea that the 
Zoological P ark 
should be thrown open 
to the cameras of the 
world is thoroughly 
illogical, and it seems 
to be entertained by 
only a very few peo¬ 
ple. There is no evi¬ 
dence, and there never 
has been any evi¬ 
dence, that the tax¬ 
payers of New York 
who furnish the great¬ 
est amount of money for the maintenance of 
the Zoological Park, are in any way dissatisfied 
with the Society’s management of the photo¬ 
graphic privilege. Each year perhaps half a 
dozen persons inquire “the Society’s reasons” 
for the ban on free photographing in the Park, 
and when these reasons are stated, the majority 
of inquirers are perfectly satisfied with the facts 
and their logic. If so much as three per cent, 
of the taxpayers of New York are dissatisfied 
with the Society’s management of the photo¬ 
graphic privilege in the Zoological Park, we 
are totally unaware of that fact. We do not 
for one moment believe that any considerable 
number of people ever will demand that the 
Zoological Park shall be thrown open for a 
carnival of free and unlimited commercial or 
other exploitation by persons who never have 
helped to create it, or that the Society’s man¬ 
agement of the Zoological Park shall be placed 
on a different basis from that on which the 
museums and art galleries of New York now 
stand. 
In the early days of the Zoological Park we 
sometimes,—though not often,—underrated the 
grinding and pulverizing power of millions of 
human beings steadily applied. 
At first we thought that we could permit all 
our visitors to wander at will through our woods, 
even in the enclosed grounds. Impossible ! The 
tramp of the feet of our annual millions would 
in one year ruin any forest floor, beyond all 
hope of restoration, and kill trees beyond all 
predicting. In our fenced area, where the mil¬ 
lions mobilize, every walk and road had to be 
fenced all along with wire barriers, to protect 
the adjacent grass and shrubbery from quick 
ruin. Our original guard rails had to be 
strengthened and extended upward,—some of 
them to a height of nine feet. For the protec¬ 
tion of the best interests of the public, for the 
greatest good of the 
greatest number, our 
regulations have 
steadily been made 
more strict, and more 
strictly enforced. 
Any zoological so¬ 
ciety, or any munici¬ 
pal government that 
pursues any other 
policy than that of 
strict regulation of all 
activities is bound to 
lose ground, and see 
its best creations in 
public parks ground 
to powder under the feet of the ever increasing 
millions of our cities. 
W. T. H. 
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NEGATIVE ENVELOPES 
On each envelope are the case and negative 
numbers, and other data. 
Photograph by Elwin Ii. Sanborn. 
NEGATIVE STORAGE CASE 
On the cover, is the case number and list of 
negatives. 
Photograph by Elwin li. Sanborn. 
