THE AQUARIUM BUILDING OR OLD FORT CLINTON DURING the summer a constant effort has been in progress to prevent the destruction of the Aquarium Building. The Society has been in touch with all organizations opposing this action and, with the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society and other groups, was represented at the hearing of the Board of Estimate, which prevented the destruction of the Schenck House in Highland Park, Brooklyn, N. Y. The Society's Director was requested to give a radio address on the subject, "Save the Aquarium Building," over Mutual Network W O R on June 2 6,1941, when that station kindly gave free time Of fifteen minutes for the purpose. The address was sponsored by this Society and the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society. As a result, hundreds of communications have been received, every one of which protested the proposed action of tearing down this historic structure. Thereafter, the address was published and several thousand copies distributed throughout the United States, with the result that we now have a huge response opposing the demolition of this building. These letters come from California to Maine and Maine to Florida. Everywhere we find people whose contacts with New Yirk make them deeply interested in the preservation of this building. At a meeting of the Board of Estimate held on September 11 th, we were represented along with many other organizations that protested the closing of the Aquarium Building and voted in accord with Borough President Stanley M. Isaacs, who stated that it would be a crime to close the building, and that his engineers report it absolutely unnecessary to do so as it in no way interferes with the work to be done in Battery Park. However, the entire Board, with the exception of Mr. Isaacs, voted against the wishes of these interested people, supported the Park Commissioner in his request to close the building, and made funds 130