ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN* 



1055 



BLUE PARROT-FISH (Pseudoscanis 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 blue 



plumbeus), which 



sent to the Museum of Natural 



This species was described by Dr. 



The annual proceedings 

 of this Society now con- 

 stitute an important 

 serise of volumes on fish- 

 ery s u b j e c t s and the 

 membership of the Soci- 

 ety numbers about seven 

 hundred. 



New Crayfishes. — 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. 



Hare Parrot-Fish. — For 

 several months the Aqu- 

 arium had a specimen of 

 parrot -fish (Pseudosearus 

 died recently and was 

 History. 

 Bean in 



1912 from three specimens 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 KeyVWest. 

 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 (Jridia Radiatus), FLORIDA 



