REPORT OF THE 



DIRECTOR OF THE AQUARIUM 



TO THE BOARD OF MANAGERS 



DURING the first four months of 1911, the Aquarium was in 

 charge of Dr. R. C. Osburn, assistant, under the general 

 supervision of the Director, who was then serving as acting 

 director of the Museum of Natural History. While the latter 

 was absent from the City from February 19 to May 8, in charge 

 of the United States Steamship Albatross expedition to the Gulf 

 of California, Dr. Osburn was detailed as acting director of the 

 Aquarium. After his return, the director resumed his duties at 

 the Museum until June 14, when he returned to the Aquarium. 



The most important additions to the collections were speci- 

 mens of fur seal, elephant seal and tropical fishes from Florida. 

 Two shipments from Key West added a number of species hither- 

 to not exhibited at the Aquarium, among them being a 200- 

 pound jewfish. One of these consignments was the gift of Mr. 

 Danforth Ferguson of Halesite, Long Island, N. Y., a most wel- 

 come and important contribution. Tropical fishes were also ob- 

 tained from Bermuda. There could, of course, be no general 

 increase in the exhibits without increasing tank space, which is 

 not possible in the present building. 



The United States Bureau of Fisheries presented the fur 

 seals which came from the Pribilof Islands. The six elephant 

 seals from Lower California were sent from the Pacific coast by 

 the Albatross expedition at the expense of the New York Zoolog- 

 ical Society. Two of these were presented by the Society to the 

 United States Bureau of Fisheries and placed in the National 

 Zoological Park at W^ashington. 



An interesting addition to the exhibits was a collection of 

 thirty-three large albino lake trout, presented by the New York 



