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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



W. T. HORNADAY. 



C. H. TOWNSfiND. 



. Sanborn, Editor. 

 partmrntB: 



Reptile 

 Raymond L. Ditm- 



Bird 

 C. William Beebe 



Ratmono C. Osburn, Ph. D. 



; S. Cramd 



Published Bi-Mouthly at the Office of the Society, 



11 Wall Street, New York City. 



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



MAILED FKEE TO MEMBERS. 



Copyright, 1911, ^y the New York Zoological Society. 



.SF.PTEMBEH, 191 1 



(&SicnB of tift &arUtB. 



yrreibf nt : 



HlNHV hAlKI lELD OsBORN. 



Exitutiur (tnminittrt : 



Madison Grant, Chairman, 



Samuel Thorne, William White Niles, 



Levi P. Morton, Wa\. Pierson Hamilton, 



Frank K. Sturgis, 



Henry Fairfield Osborn, Ex-Officio. 



(Srnrral (SfGttr* : 



Secretary 



Madison Grant, 1 1 Wall Street. 



John S. Barnes, 

 Percy R. Pyne, 



Will 

 Ch; 



•ercy R. Pyne, 30 Pine Stre 



Director 

 AM T. HORNADAY, ZOOLOCICA 



Director of the Aquarian 

 jlesH.Townsend, Batteh 



Park. 



?Saari> of IHanagfrB : 



Ex-O(ticio 



The Mayor of tlie City of New York 



Hon. William J. Gaynor. 



The President of the Department of Parks 



Hon. Charles B. Stover. 



CfllaaB of 1912. 



l.Evi P. Morton, Samuel Thorne, 



Andrew Carnegie, Henry A. C Taylor, 



John L. Cadwalader, Hugh J. Chisholm, 



John S. Barnes, Frank K. Sturgis, 



Madison Grant, George J. Gould, 



William White Niles, Ogden Mills. 



F. Augustus Scherave 

 Percy R. Pyne, 

 George B. Grinnell, 

 George C. Clark, 

 Cleveland H. Dodge, 

 C. Ledyard Blair, 



Henry F. Osborn, 

 William C. Church, 

 LisPENARD Stewart, 

 H. Casimir de Rham, 

 Hugh D. Auchincloss, 

 Charles F. Dieterich, 



horn, Frederick G. Bourne, 

 W. Austin Wadsworth, 

 Emerson McMillin. 

 Anthony R. Kuser. 

 Watson B. Dickerman. 

 Mortimer L. Schiff. 



(ElaaB of 1914. 



James J. Hill, 

 George F. Baker, 

 Grant B. Schley, 

 Wm. Pierson Hamilton, 

 Robert S. Brewster, 



Edwards. Ha 



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(SSicrrB af tlft Zaolagtcal ^arh : 



W. T. HoRNADAY, So. D., Director. 



H. R, Mitchell 

 Raymond L. Ditmars 

 C. William Bkebe 

 Lee S. Crandall 

 W. Reid Blair, D.V.S. 

 H. W. Merkel - 

 Elwin R. Sanborn 

 G. M. Beerbower 

 W. I. Mitchell 



Chief Clerk and Disbursing Offl 

 Curator of Reptiles. 

 Curator of Birds. 

 Assistant Curator of Birds 

 Veterinarian and Pathologist. 

 Chief Forester and Constructor 

 Editor and Photographer. 

 Civil Engineer. 

 Office Assistant. 



(SBiicrB of tl|r Aquarium 



Charles H. Townsend, Director. 

 Raymond C. OsBURS, Pli.D. • - - Assistant Director. 



Chapman Grant Scientific Assistant 



W. I. DeNysk In Charge of Collectioni 



WANTED: A CLEAN NEW YORK. 



LVERYWHERE in tlie streets and public 

 parks of this city the lawless and disor- 

 derly ten par-cent, of the Public continues 

 to strew waste paper and rubbish of many 

 kinds. On Mondays, when the average com- 

 inuttr returning from the north looks out of the 

 car window and sees green grass and woods 

 bestrewn witli the rags of Sunday newspapers 

 and the residuum of a thousand lunch bo.xes, he 

 knows that he has crossed the city line, and is 

 once more in dear old New York. 



.Se\en days in the week, — save for brief local 

 iiitrrv.ils, wliile the street-cleaners' backs are 

 ;ictiia!ly in sight, — our littered streets are an eye- 

 sore and a disgrace. Newspaper rags and 

 waste paper prevail, nearly everj'where. 



The tax-payers and the decent people of New 

 York pay enough for street cleaning and police 

 service to secure the cleanest city in America ; 

 Inil in com|),irison with Washington or Boston, 

 we are filled with envy and regret. 



Commissioner Stover is absolutely right in 

 stopping the sale of dirt-making unshelled pea- 

 nuts in Central Park ; and every good citizen 

 should uj)liold him in it. But how many have 

 done so.'' In a city reeking with over-dense 

 luimanity, the unshelled peanut is a nuisance 

 and a public pest. New York is a progressive 

 city, but it has much to learn from Boston of 

 excellent salted peanuts in paste-board boxes. 



In the matter of rubbish-throwing in public 

 [jlaces, New York contains the worst human ele- 

 ment of any city in America. There is a law- 

 less, defiant ten per-cent. that regards "liberty" 

 and "license " as synonomous. Notiiing but the 

 inailid fist is adequate to curb them. 



In tlie Zoological Park, we have striven 

 against the lawless throwing of rubbish on our 

 walks and lawns. We have made great gains, 

 but the irrepressible conflict continues unabated. 

 It is not a pleasant task, but we have resolved 

 to liave a clean park, or perish en masse in the 

 fight to secure it. The expressions of approval 

 that come to us prove that even in New York a 

 clean park is appreciated. 



And what of New York City as a whole, as to 

 its streets, its horrible vacant lots, and some of 

 its parks.'' 



The many open expressions of dissatisfaction, 

 and even of exasperation, that now are being 

 heard and read, portend something. They 

 mean that the time is ripe for a complete revo- 

 lution in behalf of a Clean New York! The 

 people who are dissatisfied with rubbish in pub- 

 lic places, should seek action now; and the city 



