SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 59 
Early in the spring of 1902 the Society received by gift from 
Mr. William H. Harriman, a young male specimen of Nelson’s 
Mountain Sheep, secured by him in Lower California. The little 
animal was much weakened by its long and tedious journey, and 
only survived about three months. This was believed to be the 
first specimen of that species to reach a zoological park for 
public exhibition. 
Among the mammals of special rarity and zoological impor- 
tance which reached the Zoological Park during 1902 mention 
must be made of the female Musk-Ox, eighteen months old, from 
the Barren Grounds north of Great Bear Lake, purchased by 
Hon. William C. Whitney, and presented to the Zoological 
Society in March, 1902. This was the first specimen of Ovibos 
moschatus ever exhibited in America, and it attracted great at- 
tention, both from visitors and from the press. In October, a 
second specimen—one year younger than the first—which was 
captured by Commander Robert E. Peary in Northeastern Green- 
land, was presented to the Zoological Park by the Peary Arctic 
Club. Strenuous efforts were made to induce both these animals 
to survive in this latitude, but without success. The first speci- 
men died on August 17th, of pneumonia, the disease to which 
most Eskimo and sea-lions succumb in New York. The second 
expired suddenly from an affection of the spinal cord, which 
produced complete paralysis. Thus far, fifteen specimens of the 
Musk-Ox have been brought out to civilization ; but of this num- 
ber all save three have died within a very few months after 
reaching warm latitudes. Of the three which survived, one is 
now exhibited in the Berlin Zoological Garden, one in the Zoo- 
logical Garden at Copenhagen, and the other is in the collection 
of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Park, England. 
The Peary Arctic Club also presented to the Society a young 
Atlantic Walrus, which was received in September in very weak 
condition, and survived only about three weeeks. Its death was 
due to hemorrhage of the lungs. Of all these rare animals the 
Society’s photographer secured excellent photographs, which 
eventually will be published. 
From Carl Hagenbeck the Society received by purchase a fine 
male specimen of the now rare Zebra Wolf, or Thylacine, of 
Tasmania. This animal is the largest living carnivorous mar- 
supial, and is so rare that only two specimens are on exhibition 
in Europe, and four in America. Although our specimen arrived 
in weak condition it has greatly improved in health and strength, 
and seems likely to become acclimatized. A fine specimen of the 
