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NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



FUR-SEAL, YOUNG MALE. 



A very unusual addition to our collections is a pair of fur- 

 seal pups from St. Paul Island, Alaska, the gift of the United 

 States Bureau of Fisheries. These attractive little animals were 

 received on November 23, and were, at that time, not more than 

 five months old. Since that time they have made themselves at 

 home in one of the large floor-pools and have grown nicely; the 

 male adding four pounds and the female three pounds during the 

 first month. These are the first specimens of this seal ever ex- 

 hibited in New York City, and, with the exception of two which 

 have been kept in Washington for the past year, the first to be 

 exhibited in the eastern United States. 



The New York Zoological Society has voluntarily undertaken 

 to pay out of its own funds for all specimens purchased by the 

 Aquarium. Since the Society took this matter over in June, 

 1910, it has expended $973.90 toward the Aquarium collections 

 and has secured through gifts exhibits to the value of $625. 



The Aquarium collections have been further augmented by 

 our own employees, especially by our Collector, Mr. John J. 

 DeNyse. Some idea of the amount of these collections may be 

 gained from the following figures : 



For exhibition, 500 fishes of thirty-three species ; 6,000 speci- 

 mens of the larger invertebrates of thirty-five species, and sev- 

 eral thousand eggs and young of the horseshoe crab. For the 

 fish-hatchery, 550,000 eggs of the yellow perch; for fish-food 

 and exhibition, thirty-nine quarts of shrimps; 112 lots of small 

 crustaceans (sand fleas, etc.), especially for food for the sea 

 horses ; 300 quarts of killifishes, besides considerable quantities 



