ZOOLOGICAL 
SOCIETY 
BULLETIN 
Published by the New York Zoological Society 
Votume XXIV 
JANUARY, 
1921 NuMBER 1 
ZOOLOGICAL 
ARGOSIES 
A Birpsryre VIEW or THE NorTaBLe ARRIVALS DuRING 1920. 
HE war’s stagnation of the wild animal 
market led to a universal drop in our ex- 
hibits. From 1916 down to July 1920 it was 
a steady fight against empty cages and cor- 
rals. 
However, thanks to the ripening of seed sown 
in previous years, the year 1920 brought an in- 
coming tide of specimens that has filled some of 
our Zoological Park collection units full to the 
point of actual overflow. On account of the new 
accessions, the collections that we sent to 
Antwerp, London, Pretoria and Johannesburg, 
in 1919 and 1920, have not been missed. 
Today our Park is well dotted over with the 
cheerful scarlet label which says “Recent Acces- 
sion.” 
During 1920 there were three great arrivals. 
Curator Crandall started the inflow in July, with 
the collection of about 500 birds, mammals and 
reptiles that he worked hard to gather in Eng- 
land and on the continent. No sooner was that 
lot safely stowed away and the wreckage clear- 
ed than the “Chinese Prince” floated in from 
South Africa, having on her forward deck Mr. 
A. K. Haagner and an amazing collection of 
African antelopes, small mammals and birds and 
reptiles both great and small. There were 96 
cages and crates,—and the giraffe house merely 
counted “one.” 
The landing, the dividing, the hauling and the 
installing of that lot made for us and for our 
Philadelphia partner in the enterprise, weeks of 
work; but like all things earthly, at last it came 
to an end. 
And then came the steamer “Belle Buckle’, 
directly from Sydney, Australia, via the Panama 
Canal, with Ellis S. Joseph, most amazing of 
zoological collectors, and a collection of Austra- 
lasian birds and mammals of staggering propor- 
tions. Mr. Joseph is a man of boundless energy 
and resource, and his one great object in life is 
the gathering of the rarest of the rare in bird 
and animal life, and placing it where it will do 
the greatest good to the greatest number. It is 
for this reason that he brought four species of 
birds of paradise, the turquoisine parrakeet, the 
kea, the koala, the feather-tailed opossum, the 
mandrill and an actual living specimen of the 
famous Australian lung-fish, Ceratodus fosteri. 
He had,—and he has—in Sydney a live platy- 
pus, but the government would not permit him 
to bring it to us. It will die, at Sydney, in Mr. 
Joseph’s pond, and our 2,000,000 visitors never 
will see it. 
Fortunately for us, not all of the Joseph col- 
lection was for us. Had we been obligated to 
absorb all of it, repletion certainly would have 
ensued. Portions of that great collection,— 
certainly the greatest and most valuable that 
ever left Australia at one time,—were purchased 
by Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Chicago, 
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Minneapolis and a few 
other places. 
Under the circumstances, the very least that 
we can do for the readers of the Bulletin is to 
offer a brief story of the most rare and notable 
of the arrivals of 1920, and as in duty bound 
by our system we begin with the 
MAMMALS 
The Chimpanzee Baby.— The birth of a 
living and perfect baby to Suzette, the Chim- 
panzee, thrilled the Zoological Park from centre 
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