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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



MAMMA 

 W. T. HOBNADAV, SC. D. 



AyUARIUM 

 C. H. TOWNSEND, Sc. D. 



ELWIN B. SANBORN, Editor. 

 Srpartmntta : 



Bayji 



Published Bi-Monthly at the Oliice of the Society, 



U Wall Street, New York City. 



Single Numbers. 10 Cents ; Yearly, by Mail, 70 Cents. 



MAILED FREE TO MEMBERS. 



Copyright, 1910, by the New York Zoological Society. 



XOVEMBRR, 1910 



(©ffitera of tlj* Sotifto. 



Ilrroiiirnt : 



Henry Fairfield Osborn. 

 Exrnitttir (Kammtttrr: 



Madison Grant, Chairman, 



John S Barnes, Samuel Thorne, William White Niles, 



Percy R Pyne, Levi P. Morton, Wm. Pierson Hamilton. 



Frank K. Stirgi.s. 



Henry Fairfield Osborn, Ex-Officio. 



(Srntral (Bfficrra : 



SecreUry, MiDisON Grant, 1 1 Wall Street. 

 Treasurer, Percy R. Pyne, 3ii Pine Street. 

 Director. William T. Hornaday, Sc.D., Zoological Park. 

 Director of the Aquarium, Charles H. Townsend Sc.D., Battery Park. 

 Vavh of Managrra : 

 Ex-Officio 

 The Mayor of the City ot New York - ■ Hon. William J. Gaynor 

 The President of the Department of Parks, Hon. Charles B. Stover 



aUauoflSll. aUaBaafl912. (Elaaii of 1913. 



Henry F. Osborn, Levi P. Morton, F. AugustusSchermerhorn, 



William C. Church, Andrew Carnegie, Percy R. Pyne, 

 Lispenard Stewart, John L. Cadwalader, George B. Qrinnell. 



H. CasimirdeRham, John S. Barnes, Jacob H. Schiff, 



Hugh D. Auchincloss, Madison Grant. George C. Clark, 



Charles F. Dieterich, William White Niles. Cleveland H. Dodge, 

 James J. Hill, Samuel Thorne, C. Ledyard Blair, 



George F. Baker, Henry A. 0. Taylor, Frederick G. Bourne, 



Grant B. Schley, Hugh J. Chisholm, W. Austin Wadsworth. 



James W. Barney, Frank K. Sturgis, Emerson McMillin, 



Wm.PiersonHamilton, George J. Gould, Anthony R. Kuser 



Robert S. Brewster Ogden Mills 



(fiffiirra af tt|r Zoalaglcal Parh : 

 W. T. Hornaday, Sc. D., Director. 

 H. R. Mitchell ... - chief Clerk and Disbursing Officer. 

 Raymond L. Ditmars - - Curator of Reptiles. 



C. William Beebe - - - Curator of Birds. 



W. Reid Blair, D.V.S. - - Veterinarian and Pathologist. 



H. W. Merkel - - . . Chief Forester and Constructor. 

 Elwin R. Sanborn - - - Editor and Photographer. 



Q. M. Beerbower - ■ - Civil Engineer. 



W. I. Mitchell - . - . Office Assistant. 



(Sfficcra nf ttft Aquarium 



Charles H. Townsend, Sc.D., Director. 

 Raymond C. OSKURN, Ph.D. - • - Assistant Director. 



W. I. DeNyse In Charge of Collections. 



ENLARGEMENT OF THE AQUARIUM. 



In the s])ring of 1910 the Executive Commit- 

 tee ordered a revision of the Aquarium plans, 

 and Mr. ,1. Stewart Barney has prepared the ac- 

 companying; preliminary sketch showing the 

 general plan of the Aquarium on the ground, 

 first and third floors, with the administration 

 offices, lecture hall and library. The proposed 

 revision reduces the amount of additional space 

 required to be taken from Battery Park, and at 

 the same time practically preserves the present 

 Aquarium building in its entirety. 



The new building will ap])roximately treble 

 the jiresent amount of exhibition space and will 



be adequate to meet the requirements of the 

 enormous crowds which visit the Aquarium. It 

 will also afford space for the administrative and 

 scientific work which has been forced ujion the 

 Aquarium as a public museum, and which is now 

 carried on under a great strain owing to the 

 inadequate facilities. 



The plans shown here are provisional and 

 have not yet been passed on by the Committee. 

 They will be thoroughly studied and Dr. Town- 

 send will be asked to inspect all the existing 

 .aquariums abroad. The plans will then be put 

 in final shape and brought before the Board 

 of Estimate and Apportionment. It is needless 

 to say that when finished an aquarium con- 

 structed along these lines will far outrank any 

 existino- institutions of its kind. M. G. 



AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY. 



The Fortieth Anniversary Meeting of the 

 American Fisheries Society was held at the New 

 York Aquarium on September 27 and 29. On 

 the intermediate day, September 28, the Society 

 met at the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. Nearly one hundred members were in at- 

 tendance, coming from as far west as Colorado 

 and Minnesota. Canada was represented by 

 several members, and one was registered from 

 Honolulu. 



Among the better known visiting members 

 were Dr. Theodore N. Gill, the eminent ichthy- 

 ologist of the Smithsonian Institution; Prof. S. 

 A. Forbes, Director of the Illinois State Labora- 

 tory of Natural History ; Dr. B. W. Evermann. 

 Chief of the Division of Scientific Inquiry of 

 the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries ; Prof. AVm. 

 ALmson Bryan, College of Hawaii, Honolulu; 

 Hon. Kelly Evans, Commissioner of Game and 

 I'isherics. Ontario. Canada; Hon. W. E. Mee- 

 han, Connnissioner of Fisheries of Pennsyl- 

 v.inia ; Hon. John W. Titcomb, Commissioner of 

 Fisheries of Vermont; Dr. Geo. W. Field, Com- 

 missioner of Fisheries and Game of Massachu- 

 setts; Dr. T. H. Bean, State Fish Culturist of 

 New York, and Hon. Jas. Nevin, Superinten- 

 dent of the Wisconsin Fish Commission. 



After the meeting was called to order by the 

 president, Hon. Seymour Bower, Su])erinten- 

 dent of the Michigan Fish Commission, the So- 

 ciety was welcomed to the Aquarium by the 

 Director, Dr. Chas. H. Townsend, who then 

 jiresented an address on The Conservation of 

 our Rivers and Lakes. 



The number of papers presented was so large 

 tjiat, notwithstanding several were read by title, 

 three full days were required to cover the pro- 



