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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



ELWIN R. SANBORN, EDlT.jR. 



BrpartmrntB : 



MAMMAL BIRD 



W. T.HoENADAT, Sc.D. C. William Beebe. 



AQUARIUM REPTILE 



C. H. TowNSESD, Sc. D. Raymond L. Ditmars. 



Published Bi-3Ionthly at the Office of the Society, 



11 Wall Street, New York City. 



Single Numbers, 10 Cents ; Yearly, by Mail, 71) Cents. 



MAILED FREE TO MEMBERS. 



Copyright, 1911, by the New York Zoological Society. 



NuMiiER \■^ JANUARY, ]!)11 



WS&cttB at tlje &atirlH. 



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fieaihtat -. 

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EjErnitinr CDommtttrc: 



Madison Grant, Chairman, 



John S. Barnes, Samuel Thorne, William White Niles, 



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



Frank K. Sturgis. 



Henry Fairfield Osborn, Ex-Officio. 



(6tttnal <9&cna : 

 Secretary, MiDlsON Grant, U Wall Street. 

 Treasurer, Percy R. Pyne, 30 Pine street. 

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

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



Snarli nf Mana^ttB -. 



Ex-Officio 

 The Mayor of the City of New York - - Hon. William J. Oaynor 

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



OlUuaflSll. aHaB»otl912. OMaaB 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. Grinnell, 



H. Casimir de Rham, John S. Barnes, Jacob H. Schiff, 



Hugh D. Auchinclosa, 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. C. 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 



®ffit»B of tt|t Zaalogiral Pari; : 



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. 

 El-WIN R. Sanborn - ■ - Editor and Photographer. 



G. M. Beerbower - - - CivU Engineer. 



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



(SffiicrB af tl\t Aquartum 

 CHARLES H. Townsend, Sc.D., Director. 

 Raymond C. OsBtJRN, Ph.D. - - ■ Assistant Director. 

 W. I. DkNyse Ih Charge of Collections. 



wrought since that time. His connection with 

 the Gardens continued until his death. 



Quite independently of Dr. Brown's admir- 

 able scientific and administrative work in con- 

 nection with the Philadelphia Academj' of 

 Sciences and the Wistar Institute, his work in his 

 original field entitles him to lasting distinction. 

 During the past twenty-five years scores of 

 Americans who have been called upon to develop 

 "zoos," or zoological gardens and parks of 

 larger dimensions, have gone to the Philadelphia 

 Gardens, and sought Dr. Brown's genial, patient 

 and helpful counsel; and it is safe to saj' that no 

 man ever sought his advice or help in vain. He 

 was recognized as a qualified expert on zoolog- 

 ical garden matters, and one of the first impor- 

 tant acts of the New York Zoological Society 

 was to secure from him an inspection and report 

 u])on the relative merits of Van Cortlandt, Pel- 

 ham Bay and Crotona Parks as possible sites 

 for New York's jjroposed vivarium. Had he in- 

 siiected South Bronx Park, it is reasonably cer- 

 tain that he would have recommended its selec- 

 tion. 



All Americans who are interested in zoological 

 parks and gardens have benefitted by the life 

 and work of Dr. Brown, and suffer a distinct 

 loss by his death. He was a pioneer in what 

 has become an important field of scientific en- 

 deavor, and as such he is entitled to a perma- 

 nent memorial in enduring bronze or marble. 

 We have alread3' suggested to Philadelpliians 

 that a suitable memorial be erected, and have 

 offered a subscription toward its cost. 



W. T. H. 



ARTHUR ERWIN BROWN. 

 On October 19, 1910, there passed away, in 

 the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens, Arthur 

 Erwin Brown, Sc. D., zoologist, and pioneer of 

 zoological-garden building in America. The first 

 great vivarium to be developed in America was 

 the Gardens of the Philadelphia Zoological So- 

 ciety, in Fairmount Park. From the birth of 

 that institution in 1876 until 1897, Dr. Brown 

 was its executive head, with the title of Superin- 

 tendent, and as such he blazed the trail for every 

 American zoological-garden builder who has 



OSBORN 'S "AGE OF .MAMMALS." 



About once every ten years there appears from 

 the press a work on animal life that looms up 

 like an obelisk rising from a plain. Professor 

 Henry Fairfield Osborn's "Age of Mammals" is 

 a monument of scientific research, far-reaching 

 knowledge and logical conclusions on a subject 

 as wide as the world, and millions of years old. 



It is the privilege of but few men to occujiy a 

 position high enough and broad enough to afford 

 a comprehensive view of the mammalian fauna 

 of the world, past and present. Thanks to j^ears 

 of careful preparation, successful exploration 

 and diligent research, the author of the volume 

 now before us was peculiarly fitted for the task 

 which the finished work represents. "The Age 

 of Mammals" is suflicient in itself to justify the 

 existence of the Department of Vertebrate 

 Paleontology in the American Museum, the rich- 

 est of its kind, anywhere, so far as we are aware. 



