404 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN Committee, an office which he filled with great 



EDITED BY THE DIRECTOR 



Elw!n R. Sanborn, Asst. Editor 



Published Quarterly at the Office of the Society, n Wall St., 



New York City. 



Copyright, i()oS, by the New York Zoological Society. 



No. 28. JANUARY, 1908 



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©fficers! of tfje ^ociet?. 



^cegtbent : 



HON. LEVI P. MORTON. 



Cxecutibe Committee : 



I'rof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Chairman, 

 John S. Barnes, Madison Grant, 



Percy R. Pyne, William White Niles, 



Samuel Thorne, 



Levi P. Morton, e-r-officio. 



general ©ffiters : 



Secretary, Madison Grant, ii Wall Street. 

 Treasurer, Percy R. Pvne, 52 Wall Street. 

 Director, William T. Hornaday, Zoological Park. 

 Director of the Aquarium, Charles H. Tovvnsend, B'attery Park 



^oarb of iCIanaserS : 



EX-OFFICJO, 

 TheMayoroftheCityof New Korfc. Hon. George B. McClellan. 

 The President of the Dep't of Parks, Hon. Moses Herrman. 



ClatfB ot 1908. Class of 1909. CUS8 ot 1910. 



Henry F. l.)sborn. Levi P. Morton, 



James W. Barney. Andrew Carnegie, 



William C. Cliurch, Morris K. Jesup. 



Lispenard Stewart. John U. Cadwalader, 



H. Casimir De Rham, John S. Barnes. 



George Crocker. Madison Grant. 



Hugh D. Auchincloss. William White Niles, 



Charles F. Dieterich, Samuel Thorne. 



James J. Hill. Henry A. C. Tavlor, 



George F. Baker. Hugh I. Chisholm, 



Grant B. Schley. Wm. D. Sloane. 



Payne Whitney. Winthrop Rutherfurd. 



F. Augustus Schermerhoi 

 Percy R. Pyne, 

 George B. Grinnclt, 

 Jacob H. Schiff. 

 Edward J. Berwind. 

 George C. Clark, 

 Cleveland H. Dodge, 

 C. Ledyard Blair. 

 Cornelius Vanderbilt, 

 Nelson Robinson. 

 Frederick G. Bourne, 

 W. Austin Wadsworth. 



enthusiasm and a generous e.Kpenditure, both 

 of time and of mone_v, until he was suddenly 

 taken away from us. 



"He was always most liberal minded, most 

 hospitable to new ideas, and kept before him 

 at all times a large conception of the park 

 as an ideal civic institution for tiie pleasure 

 and education of the entire public. Such a 

 conception of the duties of citizenship com- 

 mands our lasting gratitude and justly en- 

 titles him to a lasting appreciation on the 

 part of the citizens of New York. 



"His fellow members on the Executive 

 Committee desire to record their deep sense 

 of personal loss, and their warm appreciation 

 of his services to the Zoological Park and to 

 the Zoological Societv." 



AN INTERESTING TOAD. 



We have all heard stories of toads and 

 frogs that have been exhumed from crevices 

 below ground where they have apparently 

 been prisoners for an indefinite period of 

 years, without air, food or water. The point 

 that renders these stories most unusual 



Bv the death of Mr. Charles T. Barnev, is the mystery as to how the batrachians 



the Park has lost a valued friend, and the '"'g'^^ have been thus imprisoned. The writer 



must confess, that up to a few weeks past, he 



Society an energetic member. Mr. Barney's was always sceptical in digesting stories of 



interest and enthusiasm were strong factors t'le kind. Pie has repeatedly received com- 



■" . munications relating to toads bemg disclosed 



m the later development of the Zoological ^^.^gn tree trunks were cut into sections, or 



Park, and in recognition of his work, the others relating to frogs being blasted out of 



T7 .,.• I- ■** £ <-! V 1 ■ 1 c rocks. On all occasions he has responded to 

 h-xecutive Committee of the Zoological So- , ■ ,.■ u ^ r .,-u 



"^ such communications by a request tor the 



ciety, at a meeting on November 21, 1907, liberated specimens— but without success, 

 passed the following resolution: From Butte, Montana, however, there re- 



centlv came indisputable record of a toad ex- 



' Charles Tracy Barney, who died at the i,„„^ed f^om limestone, at a depth of 150 feet 



City of New York, November 14. 1907, be- from the surface. In this case, the man mak- 



came a member of the original Board of '"^ .^l^^ discovery was a thoroughly practical 



mining engineer. He saved the toad, sent it 



Managers of the New York Zoological So- to the" Reptile House for identification, and we 



ciety in 1895. I" iQoo he was elected a are thereby instructed that at least one species 



, , , „ • ^ . , . of North American batrachian gets into 



member of the Executive Committee, and m ^^^^^^^^ predicaments. It is interesting to note 



1904 was elected Chairman of the Executive that the creature figuring in this case rep- 



