ZOOLOGICAL SOCIKTY BULLETIN 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



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and the proof reading of his contribution. 



Eliviu R. Sanborn, 



Kdit.irand Official I'liotoKniplicr 



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-MARCH. U)l. 



I'.OSW F.I.I. MOHSK SHUHTI.RFF. 



Mr. INiswcIl Moi-M- SlnirtU-tt'. .-i member of 

 llie Aqu.irium Committee of tlie New York Zoo- 

 logical Society, died January (5, 1915, at tlie 

 ase of seventy-five. 



Mr. SInirtleff was a memlxr of the National 

 .\cademv of Arts, of several elul>s and societies 

 in New York and a veteran of the Civil War. 

 He had been .i member of the Aijiiarium Com- 

 mittee since lIMil!. 



PROFESSOR L. L. DYCHR. 



We regret to h.i\e to re|)ort the death of 

 Prof, Lewis Lindsay Dyche at Topeka, Kansas, 

 on January 20, at the age of fifty-nine years. 



I'rof. Dyche, in .-idditiou to his duties in 

 the St;ite University of K;ins;is. w.-is also State 

 Game and Fish Warden and devoted his atten- 

 tion es])ecially to ex))eriments in the pond cul- 

 ture of fishes under the ((uiditions existing in 

 Kansas. In this work he li.id great success. 

 Bringing to this field of effort .i wide experience 

 in the study of anim.ils .-md .i keen insight into 

 the nature and limit.ilioiis of the work, he wa-- 

 .-dile in .-i short time to secure .islonishing re- 

 sults. 



The p.-irtic'ul.ir problem in «liich he w;is most 

 interested was the <Teation of fish i);)nds tli.il 

 would vield a maxiunim of food fish at a mini- 

 mum of e\l)ensc .nlul (•.■ire. His ide.'i w;is to 

 gixe the K;ins:is f.-inner souu'tliiiio that he could 

 use to ;id\;int;ige .-md th.'it woul 1 he .i source ol' 

 income instead of .ui interesting pl.iything. 



He was a regular attendant at the meetings 

 of the American F'islierics Society, and tlie re- 

 ports of his work and experiments were always 

 received with the greatest enthusiasm. The 

 extensive State fish-cultural ponds at Pratt. 

 Kansas, are a monument to his energy and inter- 

 est in this work. His de.ith is ,i gre.it loss to 

 American fish-culture and his ])l;iee will not 

 readily be filled. 



THE A.MERIC.\N FISHKRIKS SOCIETY. 



This .Society has been doing s|)lendid service 

 .iloiig .ill lines of fisheries work for forty-four 

 years and deserves the support of everyone in- 

 terested in any branch of fisheries or aquatic 

 biology. It has been active in securing the 

 passage of laws for the protection and propa- 

 gation of aquatic animals and its annual vol- 

 umes of transactions are a mine of information 

 on all branches of the work with whieli thev 

 deal. 



The tr.'usactions for the l)ast forty-three 

 ye.irs have been issued in the form of an an- 

 nual volume, but they will henceforth appear 

 quarterly under the editorship of Dr. Raymond 

 C, Osburn of the Aquarium, The first number 

 of the new quarterly (Vol, H, No. 1 ) liears the 

 d.ite December. liU 1, 



.V coni])lete index to the first forty volumes 

 of the Transactions of the Society has been pre- 

 )3.ired by Mr. Daniel B. I'e.iriug, of Newport, 

 R. I., and this will be published shortly by the 

 Societv. This will be of great service to all 

 those who find it necessary to examine the liter- 

 ature of fisheries work covering the years from 

 1870 to 1910. 



The Society enrolls among its members prac- 

 tic.illy every working fish-culturist in the L'nited 

 States and Canada, besides many zoologists of 

 the v.irious universities and others interested in 

 fish and fisheries. At the last meeting, held in 

 Washington, D. C., thirty-four paiiers were 

 presented, besides motion ]>ietures illustrating 

 methods of fish-cultui-e .iiid the results of con- 

 sirv.itioii .md protection. 



Mr. D.iniel B. Fearing of Newport, R. L, 

 w.is elected President; Prof, Jacob Reighard of 

 the Uiiixcrsity of Michigan. ^'ice-President ; 

 Mr. ( . W. Willard of Westerly. R, I.. Treas- 

 unr; Dr. Ch.irlcs H. Townsend. Director of 

 the New ^'ork .\(iu;irium. Corresponding Sec- 

 rct.irv. .111(1 Dr. R.iyuioiid C. Osburn. .ilso of 

 Ihe .\(|U.iriuiii st.iff. w.is re-elected Recording 

 .Sccret.irv. 



