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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



Photograph by Elwin R. Sanborn 



MOONFISH {SELENE VOMER) 



THE MOON FISH (SELENE VOMER). 



THIS silvery creature always attracts at- 

 tention in the Aquarium on account of its 

 vertically lengthened head and remark- 

 able thinness. It is so flattened laterally that 

 a specimen eight inches long and six inches 

 high, may be not more than half an inch thick. 

 The species is found along our coast in sum- 

 mer and three specimens are now in the Aqua- 

 rium. It reaches a weight of two pounds, but 

 is not of much value as a food fish. The ac- 

 companying photograph suggests its pearly or 

 silvery appearance quite well.- 



about two years old. When moved to the large 

 pool, in August, 1916, his actual weight was 

 found to be 620 pounds. 



MORE ROOM FOR THE SEA LION. 



THE large California sea lion which has 

 lived in one of the floor pools in the Aqua- 

 rium for nine years, has been moved to 

 the large central pool, having outgrown his old 

 quarters. 



This active animal has taken full advantage 

 of the ample swimming space afforded in the 

 larger pool and goes merrily all day, sometimes 

 indulging in liveh" porpoise leaps. 



He was purchased in October, 1907, when 



Ej:cellent Photographi/ at the Aquarium. — 

 The full-page photographs reproduced in this 

 Bulletin are each the result of flashlight work 

 by Mr. E. R. Sanborn. The frontispiece, show- 

 ing groupers and jewfish, could hardly be im- 

 proved upon as a photograph of objects under 

 water and behind plate glass. The difficulty 

 arising from the reflection of objects behind the 

 camera has been successfully met. Other equal- 

 ly good views of the exhibits of the Aquarium 

 are ready for future numbers of the Bulletin. 



Mr. Chapman Grant, late of the Aquarium 

 staff, has re-entered the regular army, having 

 been commissioned First Lieutenant in the Sev- 

 enteenth United States Cavalry, now at El Paso, 

 Texas. Mr. Grant rendered excellent service 

 to the Aquarium during the summer, in connec- 

 tion with the work of enlarging certain exhibi- 

 tion tanks, as described elsewhere in this 

 Bulletin. 



