REPORT OF THE 
DIRECTOR OF THE AQUARIUM 
TO THE BOARD OF MANAGERS 
URING the first four months of 1911, the Aquarium was in 
charge of Dr. R. C. Osburn, assistant, under the general 
supervision of the Director, who was then serving as acting 
director of the Museum of Natural History. While the latter 
was absent from the City from February 19 to May 8, in charge 
of the United States Steamship Albatross expedition to the Gulf 
of California, Dr. Osburn was detailed as acting director of the 
Aquarium. After his return, the director resumed his duties at 
the Museum until June 14, when he returned to the Aquarium. 
The most important additions to the collections were speci- 
mens of fur seal, elephant seal and tropical fishes from Florida. 
Two shipments from Key West added a number of species hither- 
to not exhibited at the Aquarium, among them being a 200- 
pound jewfish. One of these consignments was the gift of Mr. 
Danforth Ferguson of Halesite, Long Island, N. Y., a most wel- 
come and important contribution. Tropical fishes were also ob- 
tained from Bermuda. There could, of course, be no general 
increase in the exhibits without increasing tank space, which is 
not possible in the present building. 
The United States Bureau of Fisheries presented the fur 
seals which came from the Pribilof Islands. The six elephant 
seals from Lower California were sent from the Pacific coast by 
the Albatross expedition at the expense of the New York Zoolog- 
ical Society. Two of these were presented by the Society to the 
United States Bureau of Fisheries and placed in the National 
Zoological Park at Washington. 
An interesting addition to the exhibits was a collection of 
thirty-three large albino lake trout, presented by the New York 
