114 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
Mr. E. K. Bruce, of Thornburg, Iowa, presented ten fancy 
Japanese goldfish. 
Three specimens of the alligator snapping turtle were re- 
ceived from Louisiana, weighing 70, 87, and 101 pounds respec- 
tively. The heaviest of these turtles had a total length of four 
feet and nine inches. 
A blue lobster weighing over thirteen pounds was received 
in June, but like all of the giant lobsters taken from deep waters, 
did not live long. Lobsters of bright blue color are very rare, 
and this specimen, the largest blue lobster known, has been 
mounted for exhibition. 
During the year 2,587 specimens were purchased by the Zoo- 
logical Society, and 166 were presented. In addition to these, 
eggs of several species of fishes were received from the U. S. 
Bureau of Fisheries, which were hatched in the Aquarium and 
later distributed in public waters. 
A complete list of purchases and gifts will be found else- 
where in this report. 
Aid to Schools and Teachers.—For many years the Aquarium 
has supplied small forms of marine life to teachers for stocking 
aquaria in the public schools. During the year such collections 
were furnished to forty-one institutions. The number of classes 
visiting the Aquarium with their teachers was 108, representing 
4,326 pupils. 
Paintings Showing the Color Changes of Fishes.—At the 
request of the Director, the Executive Committee provided a 
fund of $300 for the painting of certain tropical fishes conspic- 
uous for their sudden changes in color and markings. Most 
tropical fishes have the capacity of making changes in color in- 
stantaneously, but little was known of such changes until the 
records of observations made at the Aquarium were published 
by the New York Zoological Society in 1909. As mere descrip- 
tions were inadequate, and photographs were difficult to make 
and lacked color, the making of paintings was desirable in order 
+3 do justice to the subject. The twenty paintings, showing as 
many species, each in the various phases of color it is capable 
of assuming, should, when published by the Society, constitute 
an unusually interesting contribution to the natural history of 
