ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETLN' 



ards usually are. A Manchurian leopard, 

 imported by way of Shanghai, and represent- 

 ing the most northern form of the leopard of 

 Africa and India, is the gift of Mr. Philip 

 Schuyler. It is of special interest for com- 

 parison with the leopards of Africa and India. 

 Mr. Frederick L. Eldridge has presented a 



male African leopard, which will, if possible, 

 be installed as a cage-mate for the female 

 Indian leopard presented by Captain Thomas 

 Golding. The clouded leopard died before 

 reaching New York, and the female jaguar 

 met her death in a most tragic manner, as will 

 be noted elsewhere. 



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NKW YORK AQUARIUM. 



THE NEW YORK AOUARIUM 



T N this issue of the BiiUctin the Zoological 

 Society calls attention to the enlargement 

 of its field of usefulness. 



The City of New Y'ork has ceded to the 

 Society its great Acjuarium in Battery Park, 

 with a view to placing that institution under 

 a management that will be sincerely devoted 

 to conducting it for the best interests of the 

 people. 



The Society will proceed at once with its 

 improvement as a place of recreation for the 

 public, and with the development of its pos- 

 sibilities along educational and scientific 

 lines. 



The exhibits of the New Y^ork Aquarium 

 have always been free to the public, and few 

 institutions have been more popular. Its at- 

 tendance throughout the year averages over 

 5,000 persons daily. 



The building itself is one of the few his- 

 toric structures remaining in New Y^ork. 

 Built in 1807 as a fort, it was known as the 

 Southwest Battery. After the war of 1812, 

 it was called Castle Clinton, and in 1822 was 



ceded by the Government to the City of New 

 York, when it soon became a place of amuse- 

 ment and was known as Castle Garden. La- 

 fayette was received there in 1824, President 

 Jackson in 1837, President Tyler in 1843, •^^'^ 

 Louis Kossuth in 1851. 



It could seat 6,000 persons, and 4,000 more 

 could find room in it. Jenny Lind began 

 singing there in 1850. From 1855 to 1891 it 

 was used by the Bureau of Immigration as a 

 landing station for immigrants. 



The Aquarium contains seven large floor- 

 pools and 94 wall-tanks. The largest floor- 

 pool is 38 feet in diameter, the six smaller 

 pools, oblong in shape, being each 28 feet in 

 length. The wall-tanks, divided between the 

 ground floor and a circular gallery running 

 nearly around the building, vary in length 

 from 3 feet to yy2. 



The laboratory of the Aquarium contains 

 many small self-sustaining tanks or balanced 

 aquaria. 



The collections of the Aquarium are about 

 evenlv divided between fresh and salt-water 



