ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



$25,000. In addition to the resident staff ot 

 six persons and secretary, there are about 

 nine employees, assisting in the work with the 

 experiments. The scientific papers of the 

 station staff' and its associates are pubhshed 

 by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 

 a series of papers of which nine have already 

 appeared. 



In addition to the land occupied around the 

 main building there is a tract of seven acres 

 a quarter of a mile distant, of which one acre 

 is devoted to breeding pens of poultry. Two 

 acres are devoted to rearing sheep and goats, 

 and two acres to rearing pedigreed plants. 

 Among the other experiments carried on in 

 connection with the Station may be mentioned 

 a colony of cats in a small house between the 

 residence and the stable; a colony of breed- 

 ing canary birds and other cage birds located 

 in the south room of the second floor of the 

 main building and a cage devoted to ex- 

 periments with butterflies adjacent to the 

 vivarium. 



NEW YORK STATE FISH HATCHERY. 



THIS is the oldest of the three institutions 

 at Cold Spring Harbor, being established 

 in 1887 at the instigation of Mr. Eugene 

 G. Blackford, one of the New York State Fish 

 Commissioners. The present superintendent 

 is Mr. Charles H. Walters. The plant con- 

 sists of a building with numerous fish hatching 

 troughs and about two acres of ground, which 

 is covered with fish ways. A remarkable sup- 

 ply of water is obtained from springs on 

 adjacent hills and from a flowing well yield- 

 ing 200 gallons per minute. 



During this year the hatchery has hatched 

 267,000 brook trout, 144,000 rainbow trout, 

 65,000.000 torn cod, 75,000,000 smelt, 150,000 

 yellow perch, 8,000 whitefish and 11,000,000 

 winter flatfish. The fry are distributed to 

 the ponds and streams and marine harbors 

 of the State. The hatchery is one of several 

 establishments of similar pattern operated by 

 the State of New York. 



THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY. 



THIS Society was founded in 1895 by a 

 number of public minded citizens and 

 two or three zoologists, incliiding Pro- 

 fessor Osborn, Chairman for the first seven 

 years, and Madison Grant, Secretary since 

 the foundation. It had three objects: 



1. The establishment of a zoological park. 



2. The preservation of animal life. 



3. The promotion of zoology. 



The active efforts of the Society, which 

 now has a membership of 1,600, chiefly non- 

 zoologists, have been directed first to the 

 park, second to game preservation. The scien- 

 tific development has been retarded somewhat 

 until these two initial objects could be fully 

 secured. Much scientific work has been done, 

 however ; and at the present time scientific re- 

 search and publication is taking substantial 

 and permanent form. 



In 1895 the Zoological Society secured, by 

 a special act of the Legislature, the charter 

 which gave it corporate existence. Active 

 measures for the development of a zoological 

 park were at once begun. From January, 

 1896, down to the present moment, the prog- 

 ress of the organization has been an un- 

 broken series of successful undertakings. 



The first important act of the E.xecutive 

 Committee was to adopt the scheme of basic 

 principles, which was formulated by Pro- 

 fessor Henry F. Osborn, on which it was pro- 

 posed that the Zoological Park should be 

 founded. In March, 1896, Dr. William T. 

 Hornaday was chosen as Director. The site 

 selected and recommended by him was ap- 

 proved, and his preliminary design for the 

 development of the Park was approved on 

 November 27, 1896. While the esthetic 

 treatment of this plan has been submitted to 

 and modified by various experts, the orig- 

 inal scheme has been adhered to very closely. 



On March 24, 1897, the Society entered 

 into a formal agreement with the City of New 

 York of far-reaching consequence. The pres- 

 ent grounds of the Zoological Park were for- 

 mally allotted to the Society for the purposes 

 to which they are now devoted. The Society 

 received a control of the grounds that is 

 practically absolute ; and on its part it agreed 

 to expend on the Zoological Park, within 

 three years, at least $250,000. 



On November 22, 1897, an elaborate and 

 carefully studied "Final Plan" was submitted 

 to the Mayor and the Commissioners of Parks 

 of the City, and was duly accepted and signed 

 by them. It showed the Zoological Park as 

 the Society intended that it should be when 

 finallv completed. The result of this New 

 York idea for the creation of a great zoologi- 

 cal park, free to all the people, is now visible 

 to the world, and by description it is briefly 

 set forth elsewhere in this Bulletin. 



Through the liberality of the persons com- 

 posing the Zoological Society, and the confi- 



