TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 93 



CENTENNIAL OF THE AQUARIUM BUILDING. 



On the evening of May 23 the New York Zoological Society 

 celebrated the centenary of the Aquarium building in connection 

 with the celebration of the two hundredth anniversay of the birth 

 of Linnaeus by the New York Academy of Sciences. 



About 450 persons were present by invitation, the guests being 

 received by officers of the Zoological Society and the Academy 

 of Sciences. 



The Aquarium was specially decorated and illuminated for the 

 occasion, and those present enjoyed the first view of the collec- 

 tions by electric light. 



This was the first opening of the Aquarium at night, the sec- 

 ond being on the evening of the 29th of August, when 250 

 members of the Seventh International Zoological Congress were 

 given a special reception. Music was provided on both occasions. 



Most of the foreign members of the Zoological Congress were 

 surprised to find that the New York Aquarium contained a larger 

 and more varied collection than any aquarium in Europe. As a 

 matter of fact, it maintains the largest collection of living fishes 

 ever gotten together for exhibition anywhere. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



The United States Bureau of Fisheries, always the chief donor 

 to the Aquarium, supplied, as usual, most of the fish eggs for the 

 operation of the hatchery. 



The New York Forest, Fish and Game Commission furnished 

 eggs of smelt and rainbow-trout for the same purpose. 



The late Henry Bishop, of Baltimore, presented fifteen Japa- 

 nese goldfish of the large and handsome varieties so successfully 

 bred by himself. Fancy Japanese goldfishes were also presented 

 by E. K. Bruce, Jr., of Thornburg, Iowa. Mr. Henry W. Bee- 

 man, of New Preston, Conn., sent 100 young black bass and fifty 

 young yellow perch, raised in his ponds. Mr. A. B. Davis, of 

 Wading River, Long Island, presented thirty handsome pickerel. 



A collection of large brook trout, brown-trout and land-locked 

 salmon was presented by the Maine Commission of Inland Fish- 

 eries, and a collection of salmon, trout and other game fishes by 

 the New England Forest, Fish and Game Association. 



Director A. G. Mayer, of the Marine Biological Station at the 

 Tortugas, sent numerous red land-scrabs from the Bahamas, and 

 Mr. George J. Gould, Jr., two young loggerhead turtles from the 



