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AQUARIUM 



The collections at the Aquarium are in excellent condition 

 at the present time. A census of the exhibits is as follows : 



Species Specimens 



Fishes 113 3,679 



Reptiles 24 137 



Amphibia . 5 24 



Invertebrates 26 1,557 



Mammals 1 1 



Total Jan. 1, 1913 169 5,398 



IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS PROHIBITED. 



On account of the prevalence among hoofed animals of 

 the foot-and-mouth disease in Germany and Europe generally, 

 surra in Asia, and rinderpest in some portions of Africa, the 

 United States Department of Agriculture has issued a sweep- 

 ing prohibition against the importation of any ruminants from 

 the Old World. Were it not that at present our collections of 

 foreign deer, antelopes, gazelles, wild sheep, goats and wild 

 equines are quite well stocked, this prohibition would indeed 

 be a very serious matter for us. We have been compelled to 

 cancel a large order for a number of particularly rare and 

 interesting foreign hoofed animals from Africa that we ex- 

 pected to import in 1913. 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 



The general health of the animals during the past year 

 has been excellent. We have been especially fortunate in that 

 no epidemics or serious infectious diseases have occurred among 

 the collections during the year. The death rate is lower than 

 for a number of years, and few important animals have been 

 lost. The health of the Primates collection as a whole has 

 greatly improved during the year. The same is true of the 

 Small Mammals collection, which group of animals is perhaps 

 the most difficult to keep in good condition. 



NATIONAL COLLECTION OF HEADS AND HORNS. 



On December 20, 1906, by a formal resolution of the Execu- 

 tive Committee, the National Collection of Heads and Horns 

 was established in the Zoological Park, and Dr. William T. 

 Hornaday presented to the Society, as a nucleus for the proposed 

 collection, his private collection of 131 heads, representing 108 

 species. 



