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The most notable addition during the year were two Manatees, 
a 400-pound Loggerhead Turtle, seven specimens of the Giant 
Snapping Turtle of the lower Mississippi River, averaging 80 
pounds each, two large Tarpons, which were taken in pound nets 
in New York Harbor. 
The exhibits of fishes and other forms of aquatic life were as 
extensive as the number of tanks in the building permitted. 
Owing to the use of all the available space, no further addition 
to the collections is possible. 
The fish-hatchery was operated as usual as a_ fish-cultural 
exhibit, and large quantities of young fry were turned over to 
the State Fish Commission. 
OBITUARY. 
The Committee has lost during the year two of its Patrons, Mr. 
A. Newbold Morris, who had maintained for many years his 
interest in the Society, and Mr. Philip Schuyler, who was a 
member of the Executive Committee from the beginning, and 
whose loss was felt all the more keenly because his death was 
the first break in the ranks of the founders and organizers of the 
New York Zoological Society. 
The action taken by the Executive Committee upon the loss 
of Mr. Schuyler follows at the end of this report. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 
The Committee desires to express its appreciation of the con- 
tinued devotion to the interests of the Society of the Director of 
the Zoological Park, and of the Director of the Aquarium. Mr, 
Hornaday’s serious illness during the year, from which he is 
now happily fully recovered, brought home to the Committee the 
full appreciation of his importance and value to this Society. 
The staffs of both the Park and the Aquarium have been loyal 
and devoted to their work, and the Committee desires to take 
this opportunity to express its sense of appreciation. The Com- 
mittee desires also to acknowledge the courtesy and _ interest 
shown by the Mayor, Hon. George B. McClellan, and by the 
Comptroller, Hon. Herman A. Metz, and to the Hon. Moses 
Herrman, President of the Park Board. During the various 
changes in the Commissionership of the Park Department for the 
sorough of the Bronx, the members of that department have been 
uniformly helpful and friendly toward the work at the Park, and 
