110 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
A Scuoor Vivarium.—Last 
year at the Washington Irvy- 
ing High School, the habitat 
of the model high school vi- 
varium in which the Zoological 
Society maintains a friendly 
interest, Miss Florence W. 
Slater, head of the Depart- 
ment of Biology, lectured to 
8,524 pupils and 208 teachers 
from the elementary schools 
of the region round about that 
institution. The Biological 
Department of the Washing- 
ton Irving High School con- 
tained during the year 2,432 
students. 
The extent to which the 
living mammals, birds and 
reptiles, in the very practi- 
cable and well-conducted vi- 
varium of the Washington 
Irving High School, have 
been utilized for educational 
purposes is indeed most grat- 
ifying. It is doubtful whether 
any similar effort in zoological 
education ever bore a greater 
amount of fruit than this. 
ABYSSINIAN COLOBUS MONKEY 
Erepuants.— An elephant is intelligent, he has 
immense strength and a long life, and therefore has 
developed a very pronounced personality and a 
philosophy which never deserts him. Many people 
know a little about elephants, but some day The Book 
of Hathi will be written and it will be a eulogy and 
a classic. It will be a fascinating account of a won- 
derful end product of evolution, and unless written 
within the next half centry it will be a memorial, 
there will be no wild elephants left upon the earth. 
I have seen wild elephants swaying like giant 
tethered Zeppelins, with flapping ears and pendulous 
trunks, waiting for the heat of a Cinghalese midday 
to pass; and again in Rangoon when they piled teak, 
with or without the guidance of their mahout. And 
as they passed frolicsome calves, the eyes of the 
mothers wrinkled with some fleeting emotion, and 
they swung out their trunks in a caress like the sweep 
of a boom. And, once I squatted among baobab roots 
while an angry elephant winnowed the air above me 
