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PRELIMINARY PLAN FOR THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE Nbw YORK AQUARIUM. 
animals might be made to lend them- | 
selves admirably; and there are many 
kinds of research work in experimental 
morphology and heredity which might 
be carried on to advantage. While 
paying their cost in exhibits of general 
interest and unusual instructiveness to 
the public, they would at the same 
time advance science and its applica- 
tions. 
The report of the executive com- 
mittee begins with the paragraph: | 
‘““With this year closes the first period 
of the Zoological Park development, 
and from now on the work of the 
society will be, to an ever increasing 
degree, in the direction of the remain- | 
ing objects of the society. Briefly 
stated, those objects are, scientific 
work in connection with the collec- 
tions, and the protection and preserva- 
tion of our native fauna.” The di- 
rector of the aquarium also urges the | 
desirability of establishing a small 
staff of scientific curators. We may 
consequently expect that in a_ short | 
time the contributions to science from 
the Zoological Park and the Aquarium 
will rival those from the Museum of 
Natural History and the Botanical | 
Garden. 
states 
The director of the Zoological Park 
urges the need of additional bear dens, 
a zebra house and an aviary for eagles 
and vultures. He expresses the hope 
that these three buildings may be ob- 
tained during the present year and 
that with these the animal 
buildings and other installations for 
exhibits will be practically complete. 
During the past year an administra- 
tion building has been erected at a 
cost of $75000. It is intended for 
executive offices and as a meeting place 
for the members, and is to contain a 
library and art gallery. At present a 
collection of some 600 heads and horns, 
in which the director has taken much - 
interest, is housed in this building, but 
a separate building open to the public 
is planned. 
The attendance at the park last year 
was 1,614,953, an inerease of 200,000 
There were 
5,000 animals on exhibition represent- 
over the preceding year. 
ing 1,117 species, of which 812 were 
mammals, 2,880 birds and 1,308 rep- 
This increase 1908 
of 155 species and 421 specimens, in- 
tiles, is an over 
cluding many of special interest. 
The at the aquarium 
reached the remarkable record of 3.- 
attendance 
