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The most notable addition during the year were two Manatees, 

 a 400-pound Loggerhead Turtle, seven specimens of the Giant 

 Snapping Turtle of the lower Mississippi River, averaging 80 

 pounds each, two large Tarpons, which were taken in pound nets 

 in Xew York Harbor. 



The exhibits of fishes and other forms of aquatic life were as 

 extensive as the number of tanks in the building permitted. 

 Owing to the use of all the available space, no further addition 

 to the collections is possible. 



The fish-hatchery was operated as usual as a fish-cultural 

 exhibit, and large quantities of young fry were turned over to 

 the State Fish Commission. 



OBITUARY. 



The Committee has lost during the year two of its Patrons, ^Ir. 

 A. Newbold Morris, who had maintained for many years his 

 interest in the Society, and Mr. Philip Schuyler, who was a 

 member of the Executive Committee from the beginning, and 

 whose loss was felt all the more keenly because his death was 

 the first break in the ranks of the founders and organizers of the 

 New York Zoological Society. 



The action taken by the Executive Committee upon the loss 

 of Mr. Schuyler follows at the end of this report. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



The Committee desires to express its appreciation of the con- 

 tinued devotion to the interests of the Society of the Director of 

 the Zoological Park, and of the Director of the Aquarium. ]\Ir. 

 Hornaday's serious illness during the year, from which he is 

 now happily fully recovered, brought home to the Committee the 

 full appreciation of his importance and value to this Society. 

 The staffs of both the Park and the Aquarium have been loyal 

 and devoted to their work, and the Committee desires to take 

 this opportunity to express its sense of appreciation. The Com- 

 mittee desires also to acknowledge the courtesy and interest 

 shown by the Mayor, Hon. George B. ]\IcClellan, and by the 

 Comptroller, Hon. Herman A. ]Metz, and to the Hon. Moses 

 Herrman, President of the Park Board. During the various 

 changes in the Commissionership of the Park Department for the 

 Borough of the Bronx, the members of that department have been 

 uniformly helpful and friendly toward the w^ork at the Park, and 



