New York Zoological Society Thirty-Second Annual Report [antikvár]

REPORT OFTHE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEBy Madison Grant, ChairmanHE Executive Committee submit the following report to the Boardof Managers for the year 1927:The Committee have again to record a serious loss during the year by the death of two of its members, who have been associated with the Society for many years: They are Lispenard Stewart and Charles F. Dieterich, both of the class of 1929. Mr. Stewart was a member of the Executive Committee from 1911 to 1920, when the state of his health forced him to resign. He was greatly interested in the Society and was a faithful attendant of the meetings of the Executive Committee, to whose members he had endeared himself by his unfailing courtesy and faithfulness.No large accessions to the Society's endowment funds were forth-coming during the year, but a bequest of $500 was contained in the will of Harry Mayer, an unknown benefactorthat is one who had not made known his interest in the Society to any of its officials prior to his deathand the bequest seems to indicate that the Society is grad-ually assuming a position where it will be generally in line for recog-nition by those of our public spirited citizens who seek to devote a portion of their wealth to public interests.There have been no substantial changes therefore in the Society's endowment accounts, a full statement of which will appear in their proper place in this year's annual report.The Park and Aquarium have each been maintained for the year 1927 up to the Society's previous standards, although on account of the depreciation in the value of the dollár this has entailed a contribution paid out of the Society's income of nearly $76,000, to the maintenance of these two institutions, owing to the failure of the City to appropriateENDOWMENTATTENDANCE