ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



1169 



OCTOPUS IN THE HONOLULU AQUARIUM 

 Climbingr up the glass front of the tank. 



Interesting Pictures of the Octopus. — The 

 frontispiece of this Bulletin, showing the oc- 

 topus, is from a photograph made in the New 

 York Aquarium. It shows this interesting ani- 

 mal climbing up the side of the tank. Our 

 attempts at jjhotographing the octopus have not 

 hitherto been very successful owing to the 

 weakened condition in wiiich such specimens are 

 usually received from Bermuda. This photo- 

 graph by Mr. I. P. Gillette, was secured im- 

 mediately after the arrival of the last specimen 

 received at the Aquarium, and is reproduced by 

 courtesy of the International News Service. 



This octopus lived no longer than other speci- 

 mens received previously — only a few days. 



The octopus endures captivity very well in 

 such aquariums as those at Naples or Bermuda, 

 where it can be procured from adjacent 

 waters. Our experiments have shown 

 pretty conclusively that it cannot survive 

 transportation for long distances. 



The smaller octopus picture is from the 

 Honolulu Aquarium and shows the animal 

 climbing u]) the glass front of the tank. 



The Aquarium Poster Stamp. — The 

 New York Aquarium, with two millions 

 of visitors a year, and not really in need 

 of advertising, is nevertheless using an ad- 

 vertising stamp. Poster stamps for adver- 

 tising have been in common use in Europe 

 for some time, and we may expect them to 

 become so here. Pasted on the backs of 



letters, these highly colored little advertise- 

 ments are carried far and wide. The collect- 

 ing of miniature posters is already a fad abroad 

 and this is not to be wondered at, as manv of 

 them are remarkably well designed. 



The Aquarium poster stamp was suggested 

 by one of the photographs taken by !Mr. San- 

 born during the Zoological Society's porpoise 

 iuniting expedition last year to Cape Hatteras. 

 \'isitors to the Aquarium appear to be willing 

 to take these stamps at one cent each. 



Jennii Lind Autograph. — The Aquarium Li- 

 brary has secured an autograph of Jenny Lind 

 who in 1850 sang many times in the Aquarium 

 building, then called Castle Garden. It is re- 

 produced here as an item of interest, connected 

 with the history of the building which is now 

 over 100 years old. 



The autograph was obtained from Miss Julia 

 Merritt. daughter of the gentleman to whom it 

 was addressed. 



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The Porpoise. — The bottle-nose porpoise 

 {Tursiops truncatus) at the Aquarium is still 

 lively and playful after eleven months of cap- 

 tivity. It is tireless in its activity, moving 

 about the pool in various directions day and 

 night, sometimes racing at high speed or leap- 

 ing clear of the surface many times in succes- 

 sion. Not infrequently it swims belly up, nois- 

 ily smacking the surface of the water with tlie 

 tail. 



