ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



1055 



BLUE PARKOT-KISH (Pseudoscarus plumbeus) 



NOTES OF INTEREST 



A Royal Visitor. — The Grand Duke Alex- 

 ander of Russia who recently visited New 

 York told the newspaper reporters that "The 

 New York Aquarium has the most wonderful 

 collection in the world." 



Fisheries Society Meeting. — The American 

 Fisheries Society held its Forty-third Annual 

 Meeting in Boston, September 8-11, under the 

 presidency of Dr. Townsend, Director of the 

 New York Aquarium. The four days' ses- 

 sions were occupied chiefly in the reading and 

 discussion of papers relating to fish culture, 

 commercial fisheries, marine biology and 

 oceanography. Among those who presented 

 papers for discussions on 

 these subjects were: Dr. H. 

 M. Smith, United States 

 Commissioner of Fisheries; 

 Professor Dyche of the 

 University of Kansas; Pro- 

 fessor Reighard of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan; Pro- 

 fessor Field of Clark 

 Univeristy ; Professor Ward 

 of Indiana University; 

 Professor Parker of Har- 

 vard University; Dr. 

 Townsend and Professor 

 Prince, Commissioner of 

 Fisheries of Canada. Dr. 

 Raymond C. Osburn of the 

 New York Aquarium was 

 elected Recording Secre- 

 tary. 



the large 



plumbeus) , 



sent 



This 



1912 from 



The annual proceedings 

 of this Society now con- 

 stitute an important 

 serise of volumes on fish- 

 ery subjects and the 

 membership of the Soci- 

 ety numbers about seven 

 hundred. 



New C ray fishes. — Mr. 

 Dwight Lydell of the 

 Michigan Fish Commis- 

 sion has recently pre- 

 sented to the Aquarium 

 a large collection of cray- 

 fishes from Michigan con- 

 taining species which 

 have not been previously 

 exhibited here. 



Rare Parrot-Fish. — For 

 several months the Aqu- 

 arium had a specimen of 



parrot-fish (Pseudoscarus 



died recently and was 



to the Museum of Natural History. 



species was described by Dr. Bean in 



specimens 



blue 

 which 



three 



taken at the 



Bermuda Islands by Mr. Mowbray, Director 

 of the Boston Aquarium. It had not 

 previously been known to naturalists and 

 has not been seen since then until the Aqu- 

 arium specimen was taken at Key 'J, West, 

 Florida. 



This fish, the fourth one known, was much 

 larger than those from Bermuda, and was 

 strikingly handsome. Parrot fishes do not 

 live many months in captivity for the reason 

 that it is difficult to provide them with the 



PUDDING WIFE (Iridia Radiatm), FLORIDA 



