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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



SAILORS FROM THE ALBATROSS SEINING SHARKS AT SAN BARTOLOME BAY. 

 Photoj;raph by C. H. Townsend. 



ZOOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE 



ALBATROSS VOYAGE. 



By Charles H. Townsend. 



(In Charge of the Expedition.) 



BY a special arrangement with tlie United 

 States Bureau of Fisheries, the New York 

 Zoological Society was enabled to co- 

 operate in the recent voyage of the Fisheries 

 Steamship Albatross to Lower California. 



One of the iuiportant results of the expedi- 

 tion from the viewpoint of the Zoological So- 

 ciety was the capture of six ^-oung elephant 

 seals for the New York Aquarium. The mem- 

 bers of the Society will doubtless be interested 

 in liearing not only how tliese animals were ob- 



tained at Guadalupe Island, but in an account 

 of wliat was accomplished elsewhere during the 

 cruise. As the elephant seal was supposed to 

 be extinct, its re-discovery is a matter of great 

 zoological interest. In addition to the young 

 animals brought back alive, four specimens of 

 the large adult seals (three males and a female) 

 were prei^ared for the American Museum of 

 Natural History. 



Tlie males — carefully measured before skin- 

 ning — were each nearly sixteen feet long. More 

 than fifty photograjahs were taken of the ani- 

 mals as thej' were found on the island. Those 

 published herewith will serve to show the great 

 size, the remarkable proboscis, and how the ele- 

 phant seals look in their natural surroundings. 



ELEPHANT SEAL IN FIGHTING ATTITUDE WITH PROBOSCIS DRAWN UP. 

 Photograph by C. H. Townsend. 



