TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT n PAL 
eral specimens, but only one was received alive. It measured 
nearly eight feet in length and weighed 181 pounds. This shark 
lived in one of the large floor pools for five weeks and attracted 
a great deal of attention. Large sharks usually do not live longer 
than a week or two in captivity. The sharks which did not reach 
the Aquarium alive were each exhibited for a few days on ice, 
which gave visitors the opportunity of examining them closely. 
These included the following species: Milbert’s Shark, (Car- 
charhinus milberti), Sand Shark, (Carcharias littoralis), Blue 
Shark, (Prionace glauca), and Short-nosed Shark, (Hypoprion 
brevirostrus). 
Early in June, Mr. Mowbray, of the Aquarium Staff, made 
a large collection of tropical fishes at Turk’s Island, Bahamas, 
but all of these specimens were lost during a hurricane which 
struck that island a few days before the arrival of the steamer 
on which they were to be shipped. In November, Mr. Mowbray 
secured 347 tropical fishes, representing 42 species, at Key West, 
Florida. 
Numerous local sea fishes were collected from the shores 
of Long Island and New Jersey, and a great many fresh water 
species from the various lakes in the City parks. 
The fish hatchery in the Aquarium was kept in operation 
as usual through shipments of fish eggs from Government hatch- 
eries. Eges of the smelt, 2,000,000 in number, were also supplied 
by the State Conservation Commission. The species hatched 
included brook, rainbow and black-spotted trout, yellow perch, 
pike-perch, and smelt. The young fry were distributed as fol- 
lows: In the lake at Searsdale, an enlargement of Bronx River, 
7,500,000 yellow perch; in the Hudson River at New York City, 
1,950,000 smelt; to the State Conservation Commission, 3,500,- 
000 pike-perch; to the Interstate Park Commission, 1,450,000 
pike-perch; to the New Jersey Fish Commission, 300 black-spot- 
ted trout; to waters in Orange County, New York, 1,500 rainbow 
trout and 500 brook trout. 
EMPLOYES. 
The only changes among the officers of the Aquarium were 
the resignation of Mr. Chapman Grant, who re-entered the U. S. 
Army, and the appointment of Miss Ida Mellen as Secretary, 
