ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 87 
Messrs. Wm. Currys’ Sons of Key West, Florida, presented two 
unusually large specimens of the hawksbill or tortoise shell turtle, 
which had been living in a salt water pond at Key West for 
eight years. 
Mr. Frederick H. Shelton of Philadelphia presented twenty- 
seven specimens of fresh-water turtles, representing five species, 
some of which were new to the Aquarium collection. 
Mr. Emil Gottsleben of Rum Clay, Bahama Islands, presented a 
large hawksbill turtle. 
Other important gifts of aquatic animals were received from 
Dr. Alfred G. Mayer, Director of the Marine Biological Labor- 
atory at the Dry Tortugas, Florida: Capt. Paul Jacob, of the 
Hamburg American Steamship Graecia: Master Billy Clark, of 
New York, and Master Edward Redfield and Miss Bessie Red- 
field of Closter, N. J. 
Captain Jacob presented to the Zoological Park, through the 
Aquarium, specimens of iguanas from the West Indies. Mr. 
Henry Bishop of Baltimore presented several Japanese goldfishes. 
The late Mr. Philip Schuyler purchased and presented to the 
Aquarium a collection of excellent negatives of living fishes of 
Florida and the West Indies, which will be reproduced from time 
to time in the publications of the Society. 
AN OLD PICTURE OF THE AQUARIUM BUILDING. 
The frontispiece to the present report, showing the interior of 
the Aquarium building, formerly called Castle Garden, in 1850, 
is reproduced from an old and rare print. 
Some of the older members of the Zoological Society will 
doubtless recall the occasion when Jenny Lind made her first 
public appearance in America, which it commemorates. The 
following historical note is reprinted from the Aquarium Infor- 
mation Circular as an accompaniment to the picture: 
“The Aquarium building was erected in 1807 by the United 
States Government as a fort, called Southwest Battery, and after 
the war of 1812 was called Castle Clinton. It has a battery of 
30 guns, the embrasures for which still remain in the outer wall, 
which is 9 feet thick. The old ammunition rooms are surrounded 
with walls of masonry 15 feet thick. In 1823 the building was 
ceded by Congress to the City of New York and used as a place 
of amusement called Castle Garden, which had a seating capacity 
of 6,000. It was connected with Battery Park by a bridge, the 
intervening space having since been filled in. General Lafayette 
