/,()C)1.0(;iCAl. SOCIKTV liLLLETIN 



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It is not uin'ommon for the tarpon to wander 

 nortliward late in the summer and stragglers 

 are taken in jjound nets in Long Island and 

 Massaehusetts waters nearly every year. 



Muiiulcc From I'oitu liitu. — The Aquarium 

 received on August 31, a manatee {Maitatus 

 Idiiro.itris) from Porto Rieo. as the gift of Hon. 

 .lohn A. Wilson of San Juan. Porto Rieo. who 

 .ilsi) seeured free transportation for the speci- 

 men frcmi the New York and Porto Rico Steam- 

 ship Company. 



Unfortunately the m.niatee was injured in 

 capture and did not live ((uite three weeks. .\1- 

 thougli sui)plied with hrackisii-water eel-grass. 

 a food on which the manatees formerly kept .it 

 tile Atjuarium fed freely, it ate but little. One 

 of the manatees received from I'lorida lived in 

 the Aquarium seventeen months. 



The manatee from Porto Rico lias been pre- 

 sented to the .\merican Museum of Natural 

 History in Mr. Wilson's n.une. It was seven 

 feet seven inelies long and weighed four Inni- 

 dred and tliirty-sevon jjoiinds. 



'/'he Dctniii AtjiKiriiiiii. -The .\(iii.iriim> 

 which was completed in l!)(Jt took its place at 



once as the most [jopular museum of the city. 

 Its attendance lias always been large; for the 

 past five years tlie .annual number of visitors 

 has exceeded nine hundred thousand and in 

 1911 exceeded one million. 



The Detroit Atiuarium is situated in Belle 

 Isle Park. The building is "iliO feet long and 

 72 feet wide. It cont.iiiis it glass-fronted ex- 

 hibition tanks and three Hoor jiools. and has res- 

 ervoirs holding 22.800 gallons of stored sea 

 water which is used .is a permanent supply. 

 The tanks contain both m.iriin' ,ind fresh water 

 exhibits. 



For the aceom)>anying photogra])h, the Bil- 

 i.KTix is indebted to Mr. Conway wiio is in 

 charge of the Detroit .Aquarium and who was 

 formerly on the staff of the New York Aquar 

 iiiin. In the Btlletin for March, 191 1. will 

 be found a ])hotograpli of the Xew Boston 

 .\quarium. The iniblie aquarium idea is taking- 

 hold, and municiiialities all over the country 

 have applied to the New York Aquarium foil 

 plans and metiiods of construction. 



Till- Kioiiomif I'liliic of .linpliihitiiix. — In the 

 'Aoolngical Biilliiin of the Division of Zoology 



